ACLS Humanities E-Book: The heart of the Commonwealth: society and political culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1713-1861

The heart of the Commonwealth: society and political culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1713-1861

Brooke, John L.

Year: 1992.

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

List of illustrations and tables

Preface

Abbreviations used in the footnotes

Prologue: The Nipmuc frontier

PART I A provincial world, 1713-1763

1 Institutions: Towns, counties, and class

2 Economy: Class, property, credit, and the Land Bank

3 Awakening: Orthodoxy, dissent, and a new social architecture

4 Politics: From Popular insurgency to Shirley's consensus

PART II The Revolution, 1763-1789

5 The Popular gentry and the Revolutionary crisis

6 The Baptists and the Constitution

7 Conventions, Regulation, and Antifederalism

PART III In the new nation, 1789-1861

8 Party spirit

9 Economic transformation

10 Insurgencies

11 Antislavery

Epilogue: Into the Civil War

Appendix 1. Votes for governor in Worcester County, 1780-1860

Appendix 2. Town-level data: Methods and sources

Appendix 3. Individual-level data for the 1830s: Method and tables

Index

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Title:

The heart of the Commonwealth : society and political culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1713-1861 John L. Brooke.

Author:

Brooke, John L

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The heart of the Commonwealth : society and political culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1713-1861 John L. Brooke.
Brooke, John L
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.

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Subject Headings:

• Political culture -- Massachusetts -- Worcester County
• Worcester County (Mass.) -- History
• Worcester County (Mass.) -- Social conditions

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