- List of Maps and Illustrations*
- Introduction
- 1. A War of Words
- 2. Town and Crown
- 3. Smugglers and Mobs
- 4. Imperial Spaces
- 5. Settling In
- 6. Provocations
- 7. Uncertain Outcomes
- 8. Four Trials
- 9. Contested Meanings
- 10. A Usable Past
- Appendix: Eyewitness Accounts
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- * Maps and Illustrations
- Maps
- Boston Harbor and surroundings, 1770
- Town of Boston, 1770
- King Street and central Boston, 1770
- Barracks in Boston, 1768
- Tracking deserters, 1769
- Illustrations
- Engraving of four coffins representing four victims of the shooting
- Title page of Horrid Massacre
- Title page of Unhappy Disturbance
- Thomas Hutchinson, by Edward Truman
- Samuel Adams, by John Singleton Copley
- James Otis Jr., by Joseph Blackburn
- The Hutchinson House
- A New Plan of ye Great Town of Boston in New England, by William Price
- Boston, Its Environs and Harbour
- “A Plan of Castle William and the Island at Boston,” by Thomas Pownall
- Cantonment of British Forces in North America, 1766
- A View of Part of the Town of Boston in New-England and Brittish Ships of War Landing Their Troops, 1768, engraved and printed by Paul Revere [1770]
- Cartouche of Revere’s 1770 print
- Richard Dana, by John Singleton Copley
- View of Castle Island, 1770
- John Adams, by Benjamin Blyth
- Title page of The Trial of William Wemms et al.
- Fruits of Arbitrary Power, by Henry Pelham
- Paul Revere’s engraving of the “Bloody Massacre”
- 1772 broadside featuring Paul Revere’s “Bloody Massacre”
- 1771 almanac page featuring Paul Revere’s “Bloody Massacre”
- Plan of Castle Island, by John Montresor
- Boston Massacre, March 5th 1770, by William Champney
- The Boston Massacre Monument
- Maps
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