Table of Contents:
  • The Setting for Insurgency / New England Federalism on the Attack: The Washington Benevolent Society and turning Gardens into Republican Farms, 1800-1819
  • Militiamen, Debtors, Downeasterners, and "Demigods" : The Ingredients for Insurgent Activism and Federalism on the Defensive
  • Boston Rebels Again: Local Challenges to the Federalist Order
  • "Popular Hallucinations" "Ten-footers," and "Lordly Nabobs" : The Middling Interest Leadership and Coalitional Unity
  • The Mayoral Election of 1822 and the Triumph of the Middling Interest
  • "The Siege of Boston is once more raised": The Betrayal of the Insurgency's Mayor and Federalist Death Spasms
  • Personal Partisanship, Political Fragmentation, and the Politics of Public Persona
  • Boston's Caesar and the Formation of the Modern Municipal State: Reform, Renewal and Order
  • Conclusion.