American History

BEANTOWN BIOGRAPHY

of Anglo-French imperial rivalry in North America, inhabitants of French Canada often called British colonists . King George III considered Boston the font of colonial rebelliousness. Apologists for Peterson shows that the harshest critics of New England’s leading metropolis correctly gauged Beantown’s swagger and sway.

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