 | The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America Subjects: United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775; Political culture -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Regionalism -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Democracy -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Ranging from Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania to the backcountry regions of the South, the Mid-Atlantic, and northern New England, The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America offers an ambitious overview of political life in pre-Revolutionary America. Richard R. Beeman is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is coeditor of Beyond Confederation: The Origins of the American Constitution and National Identity and author of The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry: A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
