Who shall rule at home? : the evolution of South Carolina political culture, 1748-1776 / Jonathan Mercantini.

Author
Mercantini, Jonathan, 1973- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2007], ©2007.
Description
xii, 314 pages ; 24 cm.

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Subject(s)
Series
  • Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world. [More in this series]
  • The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world
Summary note
"A reinterpretation of the origins of the colonial revolutionary movement, Who Shall Rule at Home? charts the changing nature of South Carolina's political culture from the end of King George's War in 1748 to the decision for independence in 1776. As he follows the colony's shifting political landscape, Jonathan Mercantini challenges the prevailing interpretation of South Carolina as a politically harmonious colonial entity. Examining a series of constitutional and political conflicts, he highlights the increasing tensions between local authorities and royal officials in both London and Charles Town - disputes that demonstrate the growing resistance by the colony's elite to imperial control. These disagreements are all the more striking in South Carolina, according to Mercantini, because the colony benefited considerably from its relationship with Great Britain." "Mercantini explains this rejection of British rule through the transformation of the "rights of Englishmen" into the "rights of Carolina Englishmen." He suggests that South Carolinians, accustomed to authority as slave masters, took the British idea that certain inalienable rights accompanied an English birthright and reinterpreted the concept in ways related to self-rule. These "rights of Carolina Englishmen" centered on local control of elections, representation, finances, and taxation."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-305) and index.
ISBN
  • 1570036543 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781570036545 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006016889
OCLC
69645784
RCP
C - S
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