Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents xvii
4. PART ONE. GROWTH AND WAR 1690–1740
5. 1. The Web of Seaport Life 3
6. 2. The Urban Polity 26
7. 3. The Seaport Economies in an Era of War 54
8. 4. The Rise of Popular Politics 76
9. 5. The Urban Economies in an Era of Peace 102
10. 6. Political Unrest in the Interwar Period 129
11. PART TWO. CONFLICT AND REVOLUTION 1740–1776
12. 7. The Renewal of War and the Decline of Boston 161
13. 8. Religious Revival and Politics at Mid-Century 198
14. 9. Prosperity and Poverty: The Seven Years War and Its Aftermath 233
15. 10. The Intensification of Factional Politics 264
16. 11. The Stamp Act in the Port Towns 292
17. 12. The Disordered Urban Economies 312
18. 13. Revolution 339
19. APPENDIX Tables Figures NOTES INDEX
20. Appendix 387
21. Notes 419
22. Index 531