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A cultural history of the American Revolution: painting, music, literature, and the theatre in the Colonies and the United States from the Treaty of Paris to the Inauguration of George Washington, 1763-1789
Silverman, Kenneth.
Year: c1976.
Publisher:  T.Y. Crowell. 
© Kenneth Silverman
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Frontmatter
Foreword
One Culture in British America Betwen the Treaty of Paris and the Stamp Act, 1763-1765
1 Commencement: 1763
2 The Art World
3 Musical Life
4 The Literary Scene
5 The Theater
Two Demonstrations - American Culture 1765-1770
6 Stamp Act Protests: August-December 1765
7 Excursus: Whig Sentimentalism
8 Benjamin West's American School in London": June 1763-early 1766
9 Charles Willson Peale Flees to New England: Summer 1765
10 Copley's Boy with Squirrel: Fall 1765
11 Douglass' New Troupe in Charleston: October 25-November 4, 1765
12 Repeal of the Stamp Act: January-May 1766
13 Hopkinson and Peale in London: July 1766-Spring 1767
14 Success of Boy with Squirrel: August 1766
15 Opening of the Southwark Theatre: November 1766; the First American Actor; the First American Play, the Prince of Parthia: April 24, 1767
16 The Townshend Acts: June 1767; Liberty Songs and Poems: 1768-69
17 West's Agrippina. Peale's Pitt: c. Spring 1767-Spring 1769
18 Arrival of John Henry: August 1767; The Virginia Company of Comedians; the American Company Thwarted Again in Charleston: August 1769
19 British Troups in Boston: October 1768-march 1770
20 Repeal of the Townshend Acts: april 1770; Statue of King George Raised in New York: August 23, 1770
One Culture in British America during the 'Quiet Period,' 1770-1773
21 Commencement: 1770
22 The Art World
23 Musical Life
24 the Literary Scene
25 The Theatre
Two Battles - American Culture 1773-1783
26 The Tea Act and the Boston Port Bill: May 1773-September 1774
27 Copley in Europe: July 1774-March 1775
28 The First Continental Congress: September-October 1774
29 Lexington, Concord, Bunkeer's Hill: April-June 1775
30 The Siege of Boston: July 1775-March 1776
31 Outside Boston: Spring 1774-Spring 1776
32 The Second Continental Congress Declares Independence: Fall 1775-Summer 1776
33 New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania: Summer 1776-Winter 1777-78
34 Excursus: Music in the Army
35 Philadelphia and New York: Summer 1778-Summer 1780
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Title: A cultural history of the American Revolution : painting, music, literature, and the theatre in the Colonies and the United States from the Treaty of Paris to the Inauguration of George Washington, 1763-1789 Kenneth Silverman.
Author: Silverman, Kenneth
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E-Distribution Information: University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office
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2008
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Source Version: A cultural history of the American Revolution : painting, music, literature, and the theatre in the Colonies and the United States from the Treaty of Paris to the Inauguration of George Washington, 1763-1789 Kenneth Silverman. 
Silverman, Kenneth
New York: T.Y. Crowell, c1976.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01400
Subject Headings: • Arts, American -- History
• United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Miscellanea
• United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Miscellanea
• United States -- History -- Confederation, 1783-1789 -- Miscellanea
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