Voting in Provincial America: A Study of Elections in the Thirteen Colonies, 1689-1776
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Voting in Provincial America: A Study of Elections in the Thirteen Colonies, 1689-1776
By (Author) Robert J. Dinkin
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
29th September 1977
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
324.97302
Physical Properties
Hardback
284
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
454g
Description
The book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the election system in the thirteen colonies. It describes in clear-cut fashion what provincial politics was about, who ran for office and why, how candidates were nominated and elected, how balloting took place, who could and did vote, and why they did so.
Author Bio
ROBERT J. DINKIN is Professor of History at California State University, Fresno. He is the author of two previous books on American voting: Voting in Provincial America and Voting in Revolutionary America (Greenwood Press, 1977, 1982).
