Seeking to integrate recent literature on community life and on the political ethos in colonial New England, Edward M. Cook, Jr., examines elite recruitment and community structure in the four New England colonies between 1700 and 1785. In a massive sample of seventy widely dispersed towns, lists of towns, lists of town and provincial officeholders, biographical data, church records, town meeting records, and tax lists provide a core of material for analysis.
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Seeking to integrate recent literature on community life and on the political ethos in colonial New England, Edward M. Cook, Jr., examines elite recruitment and community structure in the four New England colonies between 1700 and 1785. In a massive sample of seventy widely dispersed towns, lists of towns, lists of town and provincial officeholders, biographical data, church records, town meeting records, and tax lists provide a core of material for analysis.
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Fine- in Fine- jacket. Ex-Library Withdrawn. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 273 pages with 28 Figures. "Seeking to integrate recent literature on community life and on the political ethos in colonial New England, the author examines elite recruitment and community structure in the four New England colonies between 1700 and 1785. In a massive sample of seventy widely dispersed towns, lists of towns and provincial towns, lists of towns and provincial officer-holders, biographical data, church records, town meeting records, and tax lists provide a core of material for analysis." FINE-HARDCOVER, FINE-DUST JACKET, ex-library withdrawn.
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