A Constitutional Culture : : New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire / / Adrian Chastain Weimer.
In A Constitutional Culture, Adrian Chastain Weimer uncovers the story of how, more than a hundred years before the American Revolution, colonists pledged their lives and livelihoods to the defense of local political institutions against arbitrary rule.With the return of Charles II to the English th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- Chapter 1. Shadows: The Memory of Regicide
- Chapter 2. News: Correspondence and Flying Speech
- Chapter 3. Courts: Articulating Sedition and Loyalty
- Chapter 4. Churches: Fast Days as Communal Discernment
- Chapter 5. Frigates: The Arrival of Royal Commissioners
- Chapter 6. Towns: The Resistance Petitions of 1664–1665
- Chapter 7. Propositions: The Testing of New England
- Chapter 8. Boston: The 1665 Negotiations and the Declaration by Trumpet
- Chapter 9. Borderlands: The Contest over Piscataqua, Maine, and Narragansett
- Chapter 10. Crown: Paths to Divided Sovereignty and Charles II’s Response
- Chapter 11. Impressions: Constitutional Legacies
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- INDEX
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS