New England Yankee Diaspora “New England Yankees were almost entirely the descendants of 21,000 Puritans who arrived between 1629 and 1640” (Barone, 2013, p. 52).
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Chapter 2 Penn’s Privatism and Warner’s Private City: Philadelphia and Pennsylvania
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General Introduction to Chapter 2, Political Cultures
As the twig is bent: pre-Civil War migration and political culture The foundations of American state and sub-state communities/jurisdictions, their governance, and policy-making processes were
4.55 the Charter of Privileges: Pennsylvania’s First Policy System Starts its Distinctive Path of Political/Policy Development
To put some perspective on Penn’s Frame of Government, his personal compact with the First Purchasers was based on what E. Digby Baltzell calls “the
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