Forming American Politics : Ideals, Interests, and Institutions in Colonial New York and Pennsylvania /
In this path breaking book Alan Tully offers an unprecedented comparative study of colonial political life and a rethinking of the foundations of American political culture. Tully chooses for his comparison the two colonies that arguably had the most profound impact on American political history - N...
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Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2019
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. The Contours of Provincial Politics. 1. Seventeenth-Century Beginnings. 2. The Proving of Popular Power. 3. The Pursuit of Popular Rights. 4. The Organization of Popular Politics. 5. The Electorate and Popular Politics
- pt. II. Articulating Early American Political Culture. 6. Factional Identity and Political Coherence in New York. 7. Understanding Quaker Pennsylvania. 8. Some Comparative Dimensions of Political Structure and Behavior. 9. Oligarchical Politics. 10. The Legitimation of Partisan Politics.