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
