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Kniha Gentlemen and Freeholders John Gilman Kolp

Gentlemen and Freeholders

Electoral Politics and Political Community in Colonial Virginia

Autor: John Gilman Kolp
Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Pevná
Vydavatel: Johns Hopkins University Press
Dostupnost: 50 % šance
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This text explores the role of elections in the public culture of Britain's most populous North Amer...

Informace o knize

Autor
John Gilman Kolp
Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydáno
1998
Stránek
240
EAN
9780801858437
Enbook ID
04708769
Vydavatel
Johns Hopkins University Press
Hmotnost
560
Rozměry
152 x 229 x 21

Kompletní popis

This text explores the role of elections in the public culture of Britain's most populous North American colony during the middle decades of the 18th century. In this pre-Revolutionary world, the author explains, wealthy men with stately homes, fine clothes and a genuine belief in rule by "Gentlemen of Ability and Fortune" shared the local political arena with common freeholders - small planters with 100 acres and a servant or slave to help cultivate the labour intensive tobacco crop. Gentlemen clearly ruled this society; yet they did so with the electoral support of the freeholders. How did such a system work? Many previous studies of 18th-century Virginia's local politics have portrayed a stable, consistent and uniform public culture extending from 1725 to 1815 and variously described as aristocratic, oligarchic, democratic or ritualistic. Kolp proposes a model of local political culture as shaped by regional , provincial and imperial influences but primarily conditioned by local personalities and issues. Drawing on a variety of primary sources, he reveals who ran for office, who voted and with what frequency; he explains how candidates jostled for position before running for office, how they appealed to freeholders, how public issues and private considerations influenced voter behaviour and whether levels of competition can contribute to a better understanding of social stability and unrest.

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