Democracy in the Connecticut Frontier Town of Kent / / Charles S. Grant.
Examines the economic opportunity and democracy in the town of Kent, Connecticut during the eighteenth century.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Introduction
- 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
- Introduction
- 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