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