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