Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xiii
4. Introduction 1
5. BOOK I. RENDER UNTO CAESAR
6. Chapter 1. Boston Emerges: From Hiding Place to Hub of the Puritan Atlantic 27
7. Chapter 2. The World in a Shilling: Building the City-State’s Political Economy 85
8. Chapter 3. Boston Pays Tribute: The Political Trials of an Expanding City-State 139
9. BOOK II. THE SELLING OF JOSEPH
10. Chapter 4. Theopolis Americana: Boston and the Protestant International 191
11. Chapter 5. “God Deliver Me and Mine from the Government of Soldiers 247
12. Chapter 6. Cutting Off the Circulation: Phillis Wheatley and Boston’s Revolutionary Crisis 294
13. Chapter 7. John Adams, Boston’s Diplomat: Apostle of Balance in a World Turned Upside Down 326
14. Book III. A New King over Egypt
15. Chapter 8. The Failure of Federalism: Boston’s French Years 379
16. Chapter 9. From Merchant Princes to Lords of the Loom: Remaking Boston’s Political Economy 444
17. Chapter 10. On the German Road to Athens: Boston at a Crossroads 486
18. Chapter 11. Dismembering the Body: Boston’s Spatial Fragmentation 540
19. Chapter 12. “There Was a Boston Once” 578
20. Conclusion. The Making of US History and the Disappearance of the City-State of Boston 623
21. Coda. Looking Forward to Looking Backward 633
22. Notes 639
23. Illustration Credits 721
24. Index 725