The fragmentation of New England : comparative perspectives on economic, political, and social divisions in the eighteenth century /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Greenwood Press,
1988.
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Series: | Contributions in American history ;
no. 131. |
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Online Access: | Table of contents |
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Table of Contents:
- I. Economic development in Colonial and revolutionary Connecticut
- Long range trends of wealth distribution in Eighteenth Century New England
- Poor relief, local finance and town government in Eighteenth Century Rhode Island
- II. Political divisions
- Connecticut's villages become mature towns
- Democracy and oligarchy in Connecticut towns: General Assembly officeholding 1701-1790
- Patrician leadership and the American Revolution: four case studies
- III. Social divisions
- College students and New England Society : a quantitative portrait of Yale graduates in Colonial America
- Emerging urbanism and increasing social stratification in the era of the American revolution
- IV. Samuel Adams' bumpy ride: recent views of the American Revolution in Massachusetts
- Afterword: the Fragmentation of New England.