Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American RevolutionThe Urban Crucible boldly reinterprets colonial life and the origins of the American Revolution. Through a century long history of three seaport towns Boston, New York, and Philadelphia Gary Nash discovers subtle changes in social and political awareness and describes the coming of the revolution through popular collective action and challenges to rule by custom, law and divine will. A reordering of political power required a new consciousness to