Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. The Traditional Order of Politics in England and America 8
5. 2. Eighteenth-Century Virginia: In Pursuit of the Deferential Ideal 31
6. 3. The Character of the Good Ruler in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts 69
7. 4. Uneasy Oligarchs: The Manor Lords of Upstate New York 95
8. 5. Complacent Oligarchs: The Merchant Planters of South Carolina 127
9. 6. The Unsettling Political Cultures of the Backcountry: The Southern Backcountry 157
10. 7. The Unsettling Political Cultures of the Backcountry: The Northern Frontier 183
11. 8. The Paradox of Popular and Oligarchic Political Behavior in Colonial Pennsylvania 204
12. 9. Toward Democratic Pluralism: The Politics of the Cities of the Northeast 243
13. 10. The Unfinished Revolution in American Political Culture 276
14. Appendix 1: Qualifications for Voting in North American Mainland Colonies, Circa 1770 293
15. Appendix 2: Days in Session of Colonial Assemblies, 1752-1756 295
16. Appendix 3: Average Number of Laws Enacted by Colonial Assemblies Across Selected Five-Year Periods 296
17. Appendix 4: Average Number of Petitions Received Annually by Colonial Assemblies 297
18. Appendix 5: Number of Assembly Elections per Decade 298
19. Appendix 6: Average Turnover Rate of Legislators in North American Colonial Mainland Assemblies by Decade 299
20. Notes 301
21. Index 339
22. Acknowledgments 365