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HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

HERBERT B. ADAMS, Editor

History is past ìlitics and Politics present History.-Freeman

VOLUME II

INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMICS

PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
N. MURRAY, PUBLICATION AGENT

BALTIMORE

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

I-II. Methods of Historical Study. By the Editor.

III. The Past and the Present of Political Economy. By Richard

T. Ely, Ph. D. (Heidelberg), Associate in Political Economy,

Johns Hopkins University.

IV. Samuel Adams, The Man of the Town Meeting. By James K.

Hosmer, A. M. (Harvard); Professor of English and German

Literature, Washington University, St. Louis.

V-VI. Taxation in the United States. By Henry Carter Adams, Ph. D.
(Baltimore); Professor of Political Economy, University of
Michigan.

VII. Institutional Beginnings in a Western State. By Jesse Macy,

A. B. (Iowa College); Professor of Historical and Political

Science, Iowa College.

VIII-IX. Indian Money as a Factor in New England Civilization. By

William B. Weeden, A. M. (Brown Univ.)

X. Town and County Government in the English Colonies of North

America. The Toppan Prize Essay for 1883. By Edward

Channing, Ph. D. (Harvard); Instructor in History, Harvard

College.

XI. Rudimentary Society among Boys. By John Johnson, A. B.
(J. H. U.); Instructor in History and English, McDonogh
Institute, Baltimore Co., Md.

XII. Land Laws of Mining Districts. By Charles Howard Shinn,

A. B. (J. H. U.)

I-II

METHODS

OF

HISTORICAL STUDY