All Politics Is Local: Family, Friends, and Provincial Interests in the Creation of the Constitution

By Christopher Collier

An exploration of what motivated the Connecticut delegates at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and at the ratifying convention of 1788. Challenging previous interpretation, Collier offers a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158465290X
• ISBN13: 9781584652908
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Univ Pr of New England
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Fascinating, useful and insightful

This is exactly what I wanted...insight and scholarship on a local level, tied into insight and scholarship on a broader political scale. He gives, at last,(since so few historians do this at all) a complete picture of events, not cutting off the so important social and local history. Very well written and a starting point for my research. Chris Collier's successful and insightful approach to constitutional history is exactly what I was looking for. The depth and breadth of his approach hold one's attention and allows it all to make sense at last! More historians should so this!