A Rule of Law - Elite Political Authority and the Coming of the Revolution in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1763-1776

A Rule of Law offers a fresh examination of how South Carolina's colonial elite ruled through a host of institutions beyond the legislature and jealously guarded this rule against all encroachment in the period leading to the American Revolution.

About the author

Aaron J. Palmer, Ph.D. (2009) Georgetown University is Associate Professor of History, Wisconsin Lutheran College. He was a fellow of the Harvard International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World and published in the Journal of Early American History.

Product details

• Authors: Aaron Palmer
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2014
• EAN: 9789004272347
• ISBN: 978-90-04-27234-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Early American History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous