Their Magistrates and Officials: Executive Government in Colonial Maryland, 1715-1775 - Image 1

£91.53

Lexington Books Their Magistrates and Officials: Executive Government in Colonial Maryland, 1715-1775

Name: Their Magistrates and Officials: Executive Government in Colonial Maryland, 1715-1775
Brand: Lexington Books
Price: 91.53 GBP
Availability: InStock

Colonial Period

Price History & Forecast

Last 72 days • 72 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 72 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £92 (72 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £92 - £92

Price levels: 1 different prices over 72 days

Description

Their Magistrates and Officials combines narrative, institutional study and biographical approaches to revise our understanding the mechanisms of colonial, imperial, and proprietary government in 18th century Maryland. From the restoration of the colony to the Calverts in 1715, until the Revolution in 1775, governors and their councilors played the dominant role in governance, both formal and informal. They faced a variety of practical and constitutional issues, having to balance local, proprietary and imperial interests. The personality of the governor proved as important as any legalities in dealing with economic, military, and political challenges. Several consistent issues recurred throughout the century - control over fees, the applicability of English statutes to Maryland, regulation of the tobacco trade, supervision of government officials and the clergy, and the separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches. The fundamental conflict between Enlightenment ideas and the absolutist Charter of Maryland complicated the political scene, which was already a web of conflicting personal ambitions and personalities. Only a talented and personally popular governor could navigate the political maze to address the economic, military and political issues. Reliance on raw authority yielded mixed results at best. Proprietary and even imperial government appears weak at best. This view of personal and constitutional politics conflicts with earlier interpretations of parties, the rise of the Lower House, and the role of the governors in Maryland politics prior to the Revolution, going so far as to repave the apparent road to that event. Eventually, external factors made it impossible for the proprietary government to continue, even with the most talented leadership, as the colony joined the rebellion against the Crown and the proprietor.

Product Specifications

Brand: Lexington Books
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0739141864
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Americas > United States > Colonial Period
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 March 2010
Listed Since: 21 December 2009

Barcode

No barcode data available

Lexington Books Their Magistrates and Officials: Executive Government in Colonial Maryland, 1715-1775

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Justices of the Peace 1679 - 1760

Urban Government and the Early Stuart State: Provincial Towns, Corporate Liberties, and Royal Authority in England, 1603-1640: 45 (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History)

The Struggle for the Scepter: A Study of the British Monarchy and Parliament in the Eighteenth Century

The American Revolution, State Sovereignty, and the American Constitutional Settlement, 1765-1800

Local Government in Early America: The Colonial Experience and Lessons from the Founders

Reform in the Provinces – The Government of Stuart England

What Government Does: How Political Executives Manage Different Agencies

Partisan Politics: Looking for Consensus in Eighteenth-Century Towns

Memoirs of the Court of George III

Making America: A History of the United States

The Impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock: Judicial Independence and Civic Populism

Urban Governance: Britain and Beyond since 1750 (Historical Urban Studies)

Urban Governance: Britain and Beyond Since 1750 (Historical Urban Studies Series)

The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Volume 1 (to 1877), VangoBooks

The American Counter-Revolution in Favor of Liberty: How Americans Resisted Modern State, 1765–1850

Tenacious of Their Liberties: The Congregationalists in Colonial Massachusetts (Religion in America)

America's Political Inventors: The Lost Art of Legislation (International Library of Historical Studies)

Monarchy, the Court, and the Provincial Elite in Early Modern Europe (Rulers & Elites)

Readings in American Government

Educating Republicans: The College in the Era of the American Revolution, 1750-1800: 15 (Contributions to the Study of Education)

The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders' Constitution, 1780s–1830s (New Histories of American Law)

The English Militia in the Eighteenth Century: The Story of a Political Issue 1660-1802 (Routledge Revivals)

THE COMMON LAW IN COLONIAL AMERICA VOLUME 2: Volume II: The Middle Colonies and the Carolinas, 1660-1730

The American Constitutional Tradition: Colonial Charters, Covenants, and Revolutionary State Constitutions, 1578-1780 (Law, Culture, and the ... Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities)