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Canada and the United States

Jacqueline Barbara Carr. After the Siege: A Social History of Boston 1775–1800. Boston: Northeastern University Press. 2005. Pp. xv, 318. $40.00.

Jacqueline Barbara Carr aims "to provide a social portrait of Boston between 1775 and 1800 focusing on the lives of lower- and middle-income groups and emphasizing how the community functioned in the wake of Revolution" (p. 8). Lamenting that the kind of comparative urban history Carl Bridenbaugh and Gary B. Nash fashioned for the colonial period has not yet been done for the postrevolution era, Carr indicates that, although it does not offer close comparisons of Boston with other postrevolution cities, she hopes her book will be "a building block" for such studies (p. 9). While Carr utilizes a range of primary sources to formulate that building block, she draws heavily on a database she constructed from Boston's Taking Books, which are tax assessor records that typically provide extensive personal information as well as property assessments.

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