A Rule of Law

Elite Political Authority and the Coming of the Revolution in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1763-1776
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27234-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Early American History Series

A Rule of Law: Elite Political Authority and the Coming of the Revolution in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1763-1776 by Aaron J. Palmer offers a fresh examination of how South Carolina planters and merchants—the wealthiest in the thirteen colonies—held an iron grip on political power in the province. Their authority, rooted in control of the colonial legislature’s power to make law, extended into local government, courts, plantations, and the Church of England, areas that previous political studies have not thoroughly considered. These elite planters and merchants, who were conservative by nature and fiercely guarded their control of provincial government, led the province into the American Revolution in defense of the order they had established in the colonial period.

Zielgruppe

All interested in South Carolina and Lowcountry history and the political history of eighteenth-century colonial America and the imperial crisis in general.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Palmer, Aaron

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Aaron J. Palmer, Ph.D. (2009) Georgetown University is Associate Professor of History, Wisconsin Lutheran College. He was a fellow of the Harvard International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World and published in the Journal of Early American History.