Quest for Power: The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689-1776
Publisher: Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,Publication Website: https://uncpress.org/book/9780807839454/the-quest-for-power/
Coverage: 1v. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1963
Additional Info: In this study, Greene describes the rise of the lower houses in the four southern royal colonies--Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia--in the period between the Glorious Revolution and the American War for Independence. It assesses the consequences of the success of the lower houses, especially the relationship between their rise to power and the coming of the American Revolution.