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For a more circumspect appraisal of recent writing, see Richard Beeman, "Deference, Republicanism, and the Emergence of Popular Politics in Eighteenth-Century America," William and Mary Quarterly, 49 (July 1992), 401-30.
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J. G. A. Pocock, "The Classical Theory of Deference," American Historical Review, 81 (June 1976), 516-23;
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, pp. 123-159
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For an account contending that kin constellations could monopolize the upper echelons of politics, see Lorri Glover, "Kinship Relations and the Rise of a Planter-Merchant Elite in the Eighteenth-Century Carolina Lowcountry," paper presented at the annual conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Salem, N.C., June 1997 (in Michael Zuckerman's possession).
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Private Worlds in the Middle Colonies: An Introduction to Human Tradition in American History
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The widespread acceptance among recent historians of a deferential understanding of early America disregards a wide array of argument and evidence to the contrary. Three examples must suffice. Bernard Bailyn held that there were no elites in the colonies who could appropriately claim deference. Colonists would have deferred to a class of men who combined social, economic, and political authority, but there was no such class. Those who did come to political power made demands for deference that commoners resented because the claimants were unworthy of it, producing a politics that oscillated between exaggerated demands for respect and exaggerated resistance to those demands. See Bernard Bailyn, The Origins of American Politics (New York, 1968). The Gilsdorfs undertook the most meticulous and statistically sophisticated test of the deference hypothesis that we have. They found that social forces "combined to work strongly against the establishment of a deferential electorate." Indeed, they concluded that their evidence-"demonstrate[d] convincingly that simple deference interpretations of elite-voter relations do not apply" to the Connecticut elections they studied.
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, pp. 169-183
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'Of a Rude and Quarrellsome Behavior': The Struggle for Authority in Early Orange County, Virginia
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Mary Vaz, "'Of a Rude and Quarrellsome Behavior': The Struggle for Authority in Early Orange County, Virginia," paper presented at the first annual conference of the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Ann Arbor, Mich., June 1995 (in Zuckerman's possession).
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Robert St. George, "'Set Thine House in Order': The Domestication of the Yeomanry in Seventeenth-Century New England," in New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century, ed. Jonathan L. Fairbanks and Robert F. Trent (3 vols., Boston, 1982), II, 160.
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Beverley to Carter, Aug. 1, 1763, Landon Carter Papers; Shippen quoted in Peter Thompson, Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverns and the Politics of Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia (Philadelphia, forthcoming), ch. 3. Bradford's Coffeehouse remained the only exclusive drinking establishment in Philadelphia to the eve of the Revolution, when the City Tavern was organized.
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Douglas Greenberg, "The Effectiveness of Law Enforcement in Eighteenth-Century New York," American Journal of Legal History, 19 (July 1975), 184-85.
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Harrower, Journal of John Harrower, Ibid., xix. In fact, the overseer chose to be single precisely because he preferred the independence of bachelorhood to the pleasures promised by a good wife. And in fact, in a part of the world where men did not marry till their mid-twenties, where they died before they were fifty, and where they were often widowers, a significant part of the male population over sixteen at any moment was single.
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, pp. 34
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During the French and Indian War, George Washington urged the British to enlist servants, warning the authorities that if they did not, the servants "would run off and enlist in the regular army anyway." Washington took for granted that the lower sort were not loyal to their masters and only stayed so long as they had no more attractive - or countervailingly powerful - alternative: John van der Zee, Bound Over: Indentured Servitude and American Conscience (New York, 1985), 32.
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