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The City-State of Boston : The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865 /
In the vaunted annals of America's founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary "city upon a hill" and the "cradle of liberty" for an independent United States. Wresting this iconic urban center from these misleading, tired clich s, The City-State of Boston highlig...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- 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
- 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
- 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.