Voting in Provincial America - A Study of Elections in the Thirteen Colonies, 1689-1776

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.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Robert J. Dinkin, Dinkin Robert J., UNKNOWN
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.1977
• EAN: 9780837195438
• ISBN: 978-0-8371-9543-8
• No. of pages: 284
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Contributions in American History
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Politics & government, Politics and government, Politics, Law, and Government: History