Who Shall Rule at Home?
Subtitle: The Evolution of South Carolina Political Culture, 1748û1776 (Carolina Lowcountry & the Atlantic World)
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: March 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781570036545
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; c 1700 to c 1800; Political Science; History - U.S; Politics/International Relations; Political History; United States - Colonial Period; United States - State & Local - South; Government - Local; 18th century; Colonial administrators; Colonists; History; Political culture; South Carolina
Description: "Jonathan Mercantini's book attempts to revise our understanding of the development of opposition to British imperial authority in South Carolina and the colony's place in the American Revolution. In Mercantini's view, an abiding insistence of leading Carolinians on the pre-eminence of local rights, as manifested by their practice of political 'brinkmanship' whenever they deemed those rights to be under threat, constituted the key element in this history. His analysis, which tracks a series of disputes between what he styles as 'colonial' and 'imperial' elites, thus targets the longstanding view of Robert M. Weir that 'harmony' constituted the hallmark of South Carolina politics in the run-up to 1776"--From book review on H-Net.