Fault Lines of Empire Political Differentiation in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 1760-1830

Name: Fault Lines of Empire Political Differentiation in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 1760-1830
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ISBN: 9780415950015

ISBN-10: 0415950015

ISBN-13: 9780415950015

Edition: 2005

Authors: Elizabeth Mancke

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This work presents a comparative history whose broad argument is that the differences in the political cultures of Canada and the United States have their origins in changes in the governance of the British Empire in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, rather than from changes initiated at the time of the American Revolution. In an analysis of two towns, one in Nova Scotia and one in Maine, this book addresses two large historical questions. One, why have the attitudes of Americans and Canadians about the appropriate role and function of governments differed significantly, despite the similarity of being North American liberal societies and formerly parts of the British Empire? And two,…

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List price: $43.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/29/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Corporate Structure and Private Interest: the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Expansion of New England



Liverpool, Machias, and the North Atlantic Region: an Historical, Demographic, and Economic Profile



Dividing the Land



Choosing Sides: Liverpool and Machias and the Imperial Conflict



Bearing Arms: the Military Involvement of Liverpool and Machias in the American Revolution



The Transformation of New England Congregationalism



The Structure and Functions of Local Government


Divergent Structures of Power in the Anglo-Atlantic World


Notes


Bibliography


Index