The City-State of Boston : : The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865 / / Mark Peterson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
• VerfasserIn: Peterson, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (784 p.)

A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United StatesIn the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary “city upon a hill” and the “cradle of liber...

Table of Contents

• 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