Rebels Rising

A reassessment of the role of the colonial cities in the coming of the American Revolution.

Benjamin L. Carp is the Daniel M. Lyons Associate Professor of American History at Brooklyn College. In addition to several articles and public appearances, he has written two previous books: Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America (2010), which won the triennial Society of the Cincinnati Cox Book Prize in 2013; and Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution (2007).

Introduction: Political Mobilization in the Urban Landscape
1: Port in a Storm: The Boston Waterfront as Contested Space, 1747-74
2: Orderly and Disorderly Mobilization in the Taverns of New York City
3: "And Yet There is Room": The Religious Landscape of Newport
4: Changing our Habitation: The Revolutionary Movement in Charleston's Domestic Spaces
5: Philadelphia Politics, In and Out of Doors, 1742-76
Epilogue: The Forgotten City