Christopher Collier

Biographic Data

ID533394
NAMEChristopher Collier
GIVEN NAMESChristopher
FAMILY NAMECollier
SIGNATURECOLLIER C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Connecticut
ORCID0000-0001-8914-899X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS23
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT23
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1961
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX1

  • The Campaign for Women's Property Rights

    Christopher CollierARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History2014

    Journal Article The Campaign for Women's Property Rights: Sarah Banks's Story Get access Christopher Collier Christopher Collier former Connecticut State Historian and Professor of History Emeritus *University of Connecticut. He has published numerous scholarly and popular books and articles relating to the constitutions of Connecticut and the United States, including Decision in Philadelphia (1984), Roger Sherman's Connecticut: Yankee Politics a…

  • Creative Subversions

    Charlotte Latimer, Christopher Collier et al.ARTICLEQui Parle2011

    Research Article| June 01 2011 Creative Subversions: A Politics Beyond Representation in the UK Charlotte Latimer; Charlotte Latimer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Christopher Collier; Christopher Collier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jaideep Shah; Jaideep Shah Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Katherine Burrows; Katherine Burrows Search for other works by this auth…

  • All Politics Is Local

    Stuart Leibiger, Christopher CollierARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History2005

    Journal Article All Politics Is Local: Family, Friends, and Provincial Interests in the Creation of the Constitution Get access Collier Christopher. All Politics Is Local: Family, Friends, and Provincial Interests in the Creation of the Constitution. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2003. xi, 224 pp. $39.95. Stuart Leibiger Stuart Leibiger La Salle University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …

  • Why the First Law School in the United States was Established in Connecticut

    Open AccessChristopher CollierARTICLEInternational Journal of Legal…2003

    The education of all lawyers everywhere in the British American colonies before 1784 was by apprenticeship. Aspirants to the profession, usually without any prior college education at all, read law in the office of an established practitioner. The most important part of this training occurred during the sessions of the local, county, and colony courts when the neophyte would observe, listen carefully, and take notes. After a time, sometimes only …

  • The Development of Local Public Services, 1650-1860

    Christopher Collier, Hannah J MckinneyARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article The Development of Local Public Services, 1650–1860: Lessons from Middletown, Connecticut. By Hannah J. McKinney. (Westport: Greenwood, 1995. xvi, 203 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-313-29590-5.) Get access Christopher Collier Christopher Collier University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 174–175, http…

  • Sleeping with Ghosts

    Christopher CollierARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1992

    Statement of the Case Central to the image of New England-in the eyes not only of New Englanders themselves but of Americans generally, perhaps of all the world-is the independent town. The township, proclaimed Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835, seems to come directly from the hand of God and forms the common center of interests and affections of the [New England] citizens. After describing the constitutionally limited sphere of town activity, the Fr…

  • Inventing the American Presidency

    Christopher Collier, Thomas E CroninARTICLEJournal of American History1990

    Journal Article Inventing the American Presidency. Ed. by Thomas E. Cronin. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1989. xii + 404 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $12.95.) Get access Christopher Collier Christopher Collier University of Connecticut, Storrs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1004–1005, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079032 Published: 01…

  • The American Revolution and the Politics of Liberty

    Christopher Collier, Robert H WebkingARTICLEJournal of American History1990

    Journal Article The American Revolution and the Politics of Liberty. By Robert H. Webking. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. xviii + 181 pp. $25.00.) Get access Christopher Collier Christopher Collier University of Connecticut Storrs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Page 1257, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936626 Published: 01 March…

  • Neighbors and Strangers

    Christopher Collier, Bruce H MannARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History1989

    Journal Article Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut Get access Mann Bruce H.. Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut. Studies in Legal History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. xi, 202 pp. $27.50. Christopher Collier Christopher Collier The University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, …

  • Beyond Confederation

    Christopher Collier, Richard Beeman et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1988

  • A Machine That Would Go of Itself

    Christopher Collier, Michael KammenARTICLEJournal of American History1987

    Journal Article A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture. By Michael Kammen. (New York: Knopf, 1986. xxiii + 532 pp. $29.95.) Get access Christopher Collier Christopher Collier University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 1, June 1987, Pages 143–144, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908515 Published: 01 June 1987

  • The Constitution in the Supreme Court

    Francis N Stites, David P Curie et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1986Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The First Hundred Years, 1789–1888. By David P. Currie. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. xiii + 504 pp. $55.00.) and Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787. By Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier. (New York: Random House, 1986. xvi + 331 pp. $19.95.) Get access Francis N. Stites Francis N. Stites San Diego State University Search for other works …

  • The Way of Duty

    Christopher Collier, Joy Day Buel et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1984

  • The Revolutionary Leadership

    Christopher Collier, Roger J Champagne et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1976

  • From Resistance to Revolution

    Richard Middleton, Pauline Maier et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1974

  • State Politics and the American Revolution

    Mary Beth Norton, Christopher Collier et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1973

  • Roger Sherman's Connecticut

    Larry R Gerlach, Christopher CollierARTICLEJournal of American History1972

    Journal Article Roger Sherman's Connecticut: Yankee Politics and the American Revolution. By Christopher Collier. (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1971. xiv + 409 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, a note on the sources, list of works cited, other sources consulted, and index. $18.50.) Get access Larry R. Gerlach Larry R. Gerlach University of Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American His…

  • Roger Sherman's Connecticut

    Open AccessRichard D Brown, Christopher CollierARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1972

  • Roger Sherman's Connecticut

    Jere R Daniell, Jere Daniell et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1972

  • Roger Sherman's Connecticut

    Milton M Klein, Christopher CollierARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1971

  • Who Discovered America

    Christopher CollierARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1967

    Research Article| January 01 1967 Who Discovered America?: A Review of Recent Historiography Christopher Collier Christopher Collier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1967) 66 (1): 31–41. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-66-1-31 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher Collier; Who Discovered America?: A Review of Recent Histori…

  • Continental Bonds in Connecticut on the Eve of the Funding Measure

    Christopher CollierARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1965

    S TUDENTS of the early national period who have read E. James Ferguson's excellent, though controversial, study of the funding and assumption measures might be interested in an Antifederal point of view not emphasized in his work and some detail for a state to which he does not give special attention.' The status of United States securities in Connecticut and the method of their exchange on the eve of the debate over funding and assumption is the…

  • Recent Interpretations of the Causes of the American Revolution

    Christopher CollierARTICLEThe Social Studies1961

    (1961). Recent Interpretations of the Causes of the American Revolution. The Social Studies: Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 43-49