Chesson on Bourke and Debats, 'Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America'
Paul Bourke, Donald Debats. Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xvii + 407 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8018-4950-3; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8018-5946-5.
Reviewed by Michael Chesson (Department of History, University of Massachusetts-Boston) Published on H-Pol (February, 1997)