Cities in the Revolutionary Atlantic

Trevor Burnard and Mark Peterson jointly delivered a paper titled “A Third Way Lost: The City States of Boston and Kingston, the Parameters of Empire, and the American Revolution.” Their talk was part of the conference “The American War: Britain’s American Revolution,” held at The Huntington Library in September 2012. Burnard is professor of history and philosophical studies at the University of Melbourne; Peterson is professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley.