Democracy in the Connecticut Frontier Town of Kent / / Charles S. Grant.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Grant, Charles S.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1961]; ©1961
• Year of Publication: 1961
• Language: English
• Series: Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences ; 601
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Tables --; Part I: The Settlement of Kent --; Introduction --; 1. Preliminaries to Settlement --; 2. Settlement: The Speculative Settler Proprietors --; Part II. Economic Opportunity in Kent --; Economic Opportunity in Kent --; 3. The Drive for Profits --; 4. Threats to Economic Opportunity: Land Speculation and Absenteeism --; 5. Threats to Economic Opportunity: Debt at Kent and Her Neighboring Towns --; 6. Threats to Economic Opportunity: Poverty at Kent --; Part III. Political Democracy at Kent --; 7. The Freemen at Kent --; 8. The Role of Kent Freemen in Colony Government --; 9. Local Democracy: The Town-Meeting Voter and Town Government --; Part IV: Social Democracy at Kent --; 10. The Town Leaders of Kent --; 11. "Steady Habits" at Kent --; Conclusion: Democracy at Kent --; Appendix I: Chronological Summary of Kent History --; Appendix II: Original Proprietary Shares --; Appendix III: Kent's First Settlers, December 1, 1739 --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231880701; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/gran90830
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Charles S. Grant.

Examines the economic opportunity and democracy in the town of Kent, Connecticut during the eighteenth century.