A wide-ranging introduction to local government in the overseas empires of Portugal, Spain, England and France, with further reference to the English East India Company and the Dutch East and West India Companies. In an exercise in compensatory history, the book examines the government of empire not from the metropolitan perspective, but at the local level where government was most likely to impact on the everyday lives of both persons of European birth and indigenous peoples. The first part examines the institutional framework of local and regional government at the municipal, parish and country levels, extending this to include law and order, social welfare and education. The second part examines the social dimension of local government - governance in pluricultural societies; elite formation; creolization; representation and oligarchies; and oversight and negotiated authority.
| ISBN | 0860785297 | | Pages | 896 | | ISBN13 | 9780860785293
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 2 Hardbacks | | Publisher | Ashgate Publishing Group | | Weight (grammes) | 1973 | | Imprint | Ashgate Publishing Limited | | Published in | Aldershot | | Format | Hardback | | Series editor | Russell-Wood, A.J.R., Russell-Wood, A.J.R., Russell-Wood, A.J.R. | | Publication date | 24 Dec 1999 | | Series title | Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450-1800 | | Library of Congress | JV412.L63 | | Height (mm) | 174 | | DEWEY | 325.34 | | Width (mm) | 249 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly |
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Volume 1 - Local Government. Part 1 The institutional framework - Spanish and Portuguese empires: the Cabildo, Clarence H. Haring; water and bureaucracy in colonial Puebla de los Angeles, Sonya Lipsett-Rivera; the municipal council of Goa, C.R. Boxer; local government in Portuguese America - a study in cultural divergence, A.J.R. Russell-Wood; el real tribunal de la acrodada y la delincuencia en la nueva Espana, Alicia Bazan Alarcon. Part 2 British mainland America and New France: the evolution of Massachusetts town government, 1640-1740, Kenneth A. Lockridge and Alan Krieder; the foundations of social order - local government in colonial Maryland, Lois Green Carr; the Pennsylvania County commission system, 1712-1740, Clair W. Keller; the Anglican parish vestry in colonial Virginia, William H. Seiler; evolution of the court, Paul M. McCain; the structure and functioning of local government in South Carolina, Richard Waterhouse; Philadelphia - municipal corporation, 1701-1776, Judith M. Diamondstone; le regime municipal en nouvelle France, Gustave Lanctot. Volume 2 - Law and Order. Part 1 Constables and militiamen: de la police, Moreau de Saint-Mery; the militia of colonial Massachusetts, Jack S. Radabaugh; freedmen and slaves in the Barbados militia, Jerome S. Handler; milicias negras y mulatas en el reino de Guatemala (siglo XVIII), Salvador Montoya. Part 2 Social welfare in New France and New England: social welfare measures and policies in New France, W.J. Eccles; poor relief, local finance and town government on 18th-century Rhode Island, Bruce C. Daniels. Part 3 Company rule - Cape Colony and New Netherland: VOC goverment at the Cape, M.F. Katzen; local government and central authority in New Netherland, Langdon G. Wright; civil law and colonial liberty in New Netherland, Morton Wagman. Part 4 Local government - the social dimension - customary rule and European governance: aldermen and attorneys - mayor's court Calcutta, Tarit Kumar Mukherji; the Portuguese administration in Malacca, 1511-1641, D.R. Sar Desai; the Dutch administrative structure in Sri Lanka, S. Arasaratnam. Part 5 Elite formation and Creolization: Indian town government in colonial Cuernavaca - persistence, adaptation and change, Robert S. Haskett; the growth of political institutions in Virginia, 1634-1676, Warren M. Billings; English-born Creole elites in turn-of-the-century Virginia, Carole Shammas. Part 6 Representation and oligarchy: Creoles and government - the Cabildo of Popayan, Peter Marzaht; el cabildo y regimentio de la Ciudad de Mexico en el siglo XVII - un ejemplo de oligarquia Criolla, Manuel Alvarado Moralies; the social context of democracy in Massachusetts, Michael Zuckerman; large town office-holding in 18th-century Connecticut - the growth of oligarchy, Bruce C. Daniels. Part 7 Royal government and local government: the rise of representation - electing county office-holders in colonial Pennsylvania, Clair W. Keller. (Part contents.)
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