The Fault Lines of Empire: Political Differentiation in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, ca. 1760-1830

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• List of Illustrations vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Introduction 1
• 1 - Corporate Structure and Private Interest: the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Expansion of New England 7
• 2 - Liverpool, Machias, and the North Atlantic Region: an Historical, Demographic, and Economic Profile 29
• 3 - Dividing the Land 45
• 4 - Choosing Sides: Liverpool and Machias and the Imperial Conflict 65
• 5 - Bearing Arms: the Military Involvement of Liverpool and Machias in the American Revolution 83
• 6 - The Transformation of New England Congregationalism 109
• 7 - The Structure and Functions of Local Government 139
• Divergent Structures of Power in the Anglo-Atlantic World 157
• Notes 165
• Bibliography 189
• Index 203