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Debating--and creating--authority : the failure of a constitutional ideal in Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1649 / Elizabeth Dale.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dale, Elizabeth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oligarchy.
- History.
- Massachusetts--Politics and government--To 1775.
- Massachusetts.
- Politics and government.
- Oligarchy--Massachusetts--History.
- Authority.
- Theocracy.
- Massachusetts--Politics and government--1620-1691.
- Local Subjects:
- Massachusetts--Politics and government--1620-1691.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 167 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Dartmouth, [2001]
- Contents:
- 1 Imagining a Polity 10
- 2 A System at Odds with Itself 25
- 3 Crises of Authority 43
- 4 Failure of Authority 60
- 5 Authority and Orthodoxy 84
- 6 Reinterpretations 105
- 7 Untethering the Beast 118.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-162) and index.
- ISBN:
- 075462126X
- OCLC:
- 45700803
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