TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grant,Charles S.
TI  - Democracy in the Connecticut Frontier Town of Kent
T2  - Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences
SN  - 9780231908306
PY  - 1961///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Tables --; Part I: The Settlement of Kent --; Introduction --; 1. Preliminaries to Settlement --; 2. Settlement: The Speculative Settler Proprietors --; Part II. Economic Opportunity in Kent --; Economic Opportunity in Kent --; 3. The Drive for Profits --; 4. Threats to Economic Opportunity: Land Speculation and Absenteeism --; 5. Threats to Economic Opportunity: Debt at Kent and Her Neighboring Towns --; 6. Threats to Economic Opportunity: Poverty at Kent --; Part III. Political Democracy at Kent --; Introduction --; 7. The Freemen at Kent --; 8. The Role of Kent Freemen in Colony Government --; 9. Local Democracy: The Town-Meeting Voter and Town Government --; Part IV: Social Democracy at Kent --; Introduction --; 10. The Town Leaders of Kent --; 11. "Steady Habits" at Kent --; Conclusion: Democracy at Kent --; Appendix I: Chronological Summary of Kent History --; Appendix II: Original Proprietary Shares --; Appendix III: Kent's First Settlers, December 1, 1739 --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Examines the economic opportunity and democracy in the town of Kent, Connecticut during the eighteenth century
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/gran90830
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