Pennsylvania: Table of contents

Penn’s Policy System: Pre-1720 Structures, Personality, Culture & Politics
1. Penn’s Frame & Settlement Politics; 2. Penn’s Approach to Economic Base-Building; 3. Best Laid Plans of Mice and Penn: city planning, city-building amid turbulent policy agenda; 4. Time of Troubles: Penn’s Perfect Storm; 5. Penn’s Final Frame: Charter of Privileges; 6. the Structures: County, Town, Borough, Roads and the Poor; 7. Effects of Political Civil War on the Evolution of Pennsylvania’s Sub-Provincial Policy System

Sub-Provincial Policy System: City of Philadelphia, Privatism, and Early Community Development
1. English Municipal Governance Travels Poorly: English Municipal Corporation: 2.Politics Leading to an Isolated Closed Municipal Incorporation; 3. the Municipal Corporation Tries Going It Alone: 1701-1712; 4. the Corporation and Bypass Special Districts; 5. the Rise of Philadelphia Privatism;

Pennsylvania and Philadelphia: Economic Base-Building

1. Introduction and Context: Economic Base-Building: Pennsylvania and Philadelphia; 2. Society of Free Traders; 3. Development of Commercial Community & Pennsylvania’s Self-Sufficiency Strategy 1682 to 1720; 4. Diversifying: Away from Self-Sufficiency to a Growth Strategy through Agglomerations-Clusters; 6. Artisans: Who are they?; 7. Early Community Development;

4. Pennsylvania’s Policy System: After 1701 Pennsylvania Policy System Takes Shape: Provincial Legislature Policy-Making; Sub-Provincial Policy System:
1. Establishing a Policy System Is Easier Said than Done: Building Upon Lessons Learned from Virginia and Penn’s First Twenty Years in Pennsylvania

2. Assembly Bypasses Proprietor Sub-State Policy System: the Pennsylvania County and Township: Highways, Bridges and Ferries

3. Philadelphia Municipal Corporation: Assessors, Separately Elected Functions: Laying the Foundation for Warner’s Privatism

4. Provincial Politics: How Quaker Culture Facilitated Legislative Quaker Party versus Proprietary Branch War; Formation of a Sort of, Kind Of Two Branches Competitive Policy System with Quaker Party as Political Party-Machine

5. General Assembly Asserts Itself: Taxes, Finances-Credit: Two Party Policy System During the 1720’s

6. Pennsylvania Descends into Stasis and Paralysis: Paper Money, War/Pacifism and Benjamin Franklin Emerges as Quaker Party Leader: 1748-55

5. Proprietary Hinterland – Frontier Homestead Settlement Strategy and Indian Relations
1. 2. Penn’s Indian Strategy and Covenant Chain; 3. Penn’s Secretariat, James Logan and Strategy Shift; 4. Penn’s Sons Take Over;

6. Pennsylvania– Immigration, Germans and Scots Irish; Germans & Pennsylvania to 1660: German Redemptionist Immigration Waves; German Settlement & Local Institutions; Germans & Penn Proprietary; German Culture, Political & Otherwise; Entry of Germans into Pennsylvania Policy System & Economy

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