John L. Brooke

The Heart of the Commonwealth

Society and Political Culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts 1713 1861

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a study of society and public culture in Worcester County, the 'Heart of the Commonwealth' of Massachusetts, from the Peace of Utrecht to the Civil War. My purpose is to explore the place of republican and liberal ideology in the experience of this county's people, as they moved from colonial ancient regime through national and industrial revolution to the threshold of modern life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 711g
• ISBN-13: 9780521673396
• ISBN-10: 0521673399
• Artikelnr.: 21022964

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations and tables
Preface
Abbreviations used in the footnotes
Prologue
Part I. A Provincial World, 1713-1763: 1. Institutions: towns, countries and class
2. Economy: class, property, credit, and the Land Bank
3. Awakening: orthodoxy, dissent, and a new social architecture
4. Politics: from popular insurgency to Shirley's consensus
Part II. The Revolution, 1763-1789: 5. The popular gentry and the revolutionary crisis
6. The Baptists and the constitution
7. Conventions, regulation, and antifederalism
Part III. In the New Nation, 1789-1861: 8. Party spirit
9. Economic transformation
10. Insurgencies
11. Antislavery
Epilogue
Appendices
Index.