Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Corporate Structure and Private Interest: The Mid-Eighteenth-Century Expansion of New England; 2 Liverpool, Machias, and the North Atlantic Region: An Historical, Demographic, and Economic Profile; 3 Dividing the Land; 4 Choosing Sides: Liverpool and Machias and the Imperial Conflict; 5 Bearing Arms: The Military Involvement of Liverpool and Machias in the American Revolution; 6 The Transformation of New England Congregationalism; 7 The Structure and Functions of Local Government
Summary
This work presents a comparative history arguing that differences in the political cultures of Canada and the United States have their origins in changes in the governance of the British Empire in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
