About the author. Introduction : Why write the history of ordinary people? -- 8. people out of doors -- 1. The mechanics of the revolution : "By hammer and hand all arts do stand" -- 2. "Persons of consequence" : the women of Boston and the making of the American Revolution, 1766-1776 -- 3. Tar and feathers and the ghost of Oliver Cromwell : English Plebeian culture and American radicalism -- pt. 2. Accommodations -- 4. Conservatives, the Constitution, and the "Genius of the people" -- 5. How radical was the American Revolution? -- pt. 3. Memory : lost and found -- 6. The celebration and damnation of Thomas Paine -- 7. The Freedom Trail : walking the Revolution in Boston -- 8. Liberty Tree : made in America, lost in America -- Index -- About the author.
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