• Contents


• List of Illustrations


• Editor's Note


• Introduction


• Chapter 1 GRENVILLE'S INNOVATION


• Chapter 2 ON THE BRINK


• Chapter 3 POWER AND THE OPPOSITION


• Chapter 4 AN ACCOMMODATION OF SORTS


• Chapter 5 THE TOWNSHEND BLUNDER


• Chapter 6 A MOMENTOUS DECISION


• Chapter 7 CAMPING ON THE COMMON


• Chapter 8 OCCUPATION


• Chapter 9 THE MERCHANTS AND JOHN MEIN


• Chapter 10 PRELUDE TO A TRAGEDY


• Chapter 11 THE MASSACRE ON KING STREET


• Chapter 12 AFTERMATH


• Conclusion A REVOLUTIONARY LEGACY


• Acknowledgments


• Notes


• Works Cited


• Index

Richard Archer is Professor of History Emeritus at Whittier College. He is the author of Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century.

In the dramatic period leading to the American Revolution, no event did more to foment patriotic sentiment among colonists than the armed occupation of Boston by British soldiers. As If an Enemy's Country is Richard Archer's gripping narrative of those critical months between October 1, 1768 and the winter of 1770 when Boston was an occupied town.