| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Who Shall Rule at Home? The Evolution of South Carolina Political Culture, 1748–1776. By Jonathan Mercantini. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xiv, 314 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-654-5.)

Antebellum South Carolina is notorious for its stubborn defiance of federal authority, and, as Jonathan Mercantini argues, it came by its stubbornness honestly. In this fine political history of late-colonial South Carolina, Mercantini traces the origins of Carolina radicalism to the late 1740s, when the provincial assembly began a long series of standoffs with imperial authorities over who would rule at home. In the process, Mercantini pushes back the origins of the American Revolution, placing them well before the Seven Years' War, and paints a detailed, often engaging picture of South Carolina's peculiar political culture.

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