Power and status : officeholding in Colonial America /
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Middletown, Conn. : Scranton, Pa. :
Wesleyan University Press ; Distributed by Harper & Row,
©1986.
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Table of Contents:
- "Ambitious of honor and places" : the magistracy of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, 1692-1760 / Ronald K. Snell
- Diversity and democracy : officeholding patterns among selectmen in eighteenth-century Connecticut / Bruce C. Daniels
- The development of local power structures : Maryland's Lower Western Shore in the early colonial period / Lorena S. Walsh
- Quaker party and proprietary policies : the dynamics of politics in pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania, 1730-1775 / Alan Tully
- Portrait of a colonial oligarchy : the Quaker elite in the Pennsylvania Assembly, 1729-1776 / Richard Alan Ryerson
- "Hungry as hawks" : the social bases of political leadership in colonial North Carolina, 1729-1776 / A. Roger Ekirch
- Merchants, planters, and lawyers : political culture and leadership in South Carolina, 1721-1775 / Richard Waterhouse
- At the pinnacle of elective success : the Speaker of the House in Colonial America / Thomas Wendel
- "Patronage most ardently sought" : the New York Council, 1665-1775 / Jessica Kross
- A beleaguered elite : the New Jersey Council, 1702-1776 / Thomas L. Purvis
- Founders of an oligarchy : the Virginia Council, 1692-1722 / Grace L. Chickering.