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The society will do they honor. I just wanted to take a moment to greet everyone. [applause] a terrific number of programs. Including some definitive conversations how to begin. This is a book about lifetime work. A career based in the strong premise that cities are important. Vital to civilization. Vital to this world. I will let her tell you about the book. I will tell you the first time i met my first week at the appropriation, they had left. Primary for mayor. I never met him although i knew the Agency Working there to graduate school. It happened on a very odd day. We were working on the 46 floor the building. We were the only at the time. A very difficult time. They were reluctant to sign the lease with the state agency because god knows what that might feel like. It was only between paper or obligations. That particular day, everybody was carrying around a copy of the New Y ....
Developments shaped the civil war, and hopefully get a sense of whats going on outside, in the rest of the world. In some ways, this is not a new thing. People have been writing diplomatic histories of the civil war really since the years after the conflict ended. But the combination of the sesquicentennial, a new rethinking of 19thcentury globalization, and really the current context in which americans are sort of rethinking what it means to be part of a larger world, in a postcold war era, has generated a lot of rich scholarship that situates the u. S. Civil war in a broader context. Were fortunate to have three young, excellent scholars who will help guide us through this, and we of course look forward to your questions at the end. Im going to start here to my left. Dave thomson is assistant professor of history at sacred heart university, and is proud to acknowledge he was a High School Scholarship student some time a ....
Okay, everybody. Last class we were talking about outbreak of the American Revolution. We say all this. Tension is building in the spring of 1775 in april, general thomas gage sends troops into the country side, fighting breaks out at lexington and concord. As night falls about 20,000 americans descend on boston, lay siege to the city in this war nobody wants, been brewing for 12, 13 years has started. So today were going to talk whats call anybody take french . Am i pronouncing it right . Probably. Okay. Close enough. This is april 1775, so right after lexington and concord through the declaration of independence. This is sometimes called the Popular Uprising phase, okay . This is the year of the revolution that probably more people supported the war than any other one. Why do you suppose theres so much support for the war this year . Any ideas . Go ahead, isabel . Th ....
That is been brewing for 12 or 13 years has started. So today we will talk about what is called am i pronouncing it right . Probably close enough. This is april, 1775. Right after lexington and concord. This is sometimes called the Popular Uprising phase, okay . This is the year of the revolution where probably more people supported the war than any other time. Why do you think so many people supported the war during this year . Any ideas . Go ahead, isabel. Everybody started fighting and they dont really know what the war will mean. Anyone else any ideas . I have some images here to show you guys. Kind of a neat quote. There is a historian who coined this phrase, rage militaire. He is in philadelphia, not boston. He says the rage militaire, as the french call a passion for arms, has taken possession of the whole continent. Americans are literally fighting mad, literally fighting mad, okay. And that is why there is so much suppo ....