Forming American politics : ideals, interests, and institutions in colonial New York and Pennsylvania

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Forming American politics : ideals, interests, and institutions in colonial New York and Pennsylvania

Alan Tully

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

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Originally published: 1994

Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-552) and index

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Originally published in 1994. In this pathbreaking book Alan Tully offers an unprecedented comparative study of colonial political life and a rethinking of the foundations of American political culture. Tully chooses for his comparison the two colonies that arguably had the most profound impact on American political history-New York and Pennsylvania, the rich and varied colonies at the geographical and ideological center of British colonial America. Fundamental to the book is Tully's argument that out of Anglo-American influences and the cumulative character of each colonial experience, New York and Pennsylvania developed their own distinctive but complementary characteristics. In making this case Tully enters-from a new perspective-the prominent argument between the "classical republican" and "liberal" views of early American public thought. He contends that the radical Whig element of classical republicanism was far less influential than historians have believed and that the political experience of New York and Pennsylvania led to their role as innovators of liberal political concepts and discourse. In a conclusion that pursues his insights into the revolutionary and early republican years, Tully underlines a paradox in American political development: not only were the pathbreaking liberal politicians of New York and Pennsylvania the least inclined towards revolutionary fervor, but their political language and concepts-integral to an emerging liberal democratic order-were rooted in oligarchical political practice. "A momentous contribution to the burgeoning literature on the middle Atlantic region, and to the vexed question of whether it constitutes a coherent cultural configuration. Tully argues persuasively that it does, and his arguments will have to be reckoned with like few that have gone before, even as he develops an array of differences between the two colonies more subtle and penetrating than any of his predecessors has ever put forth."-Michael Zuckerman, University of Pennsylvania.

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Maps Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Contours of Provincial Politics Chapter 1. Seventeenth-Century Beginnings Chapter 2. The Proving of Popular Power Chapter 3. The Pursuit of Popular Rights Chapter 4. The Organization of Popular Politics Chapter 5. The Electorate and Popular Politics Part II: Articulating Early American Political Culture Chapter 6. Factional Identity and Political Coherence in New York Chapter 7. Understanding Quaker Pennsylvania Chapter 8. Some Comparative Dimensions of Political Structure and Behavior Chapter 9. Oligarchical Politics Chapter 10. The Legitimation of Partisan Politics Conclusion Appendix Abbreviations Bibliographical Note Notes Index

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