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.