+Banner, James.
To the Hartford Convention: The Federalists
and
The Origins of Party Politics in Massachusetts (1782-1815)
New York: Knopf. 1970. The most up to date work on party politics in Massachusetts, has a useful appendix which includes Connecticut statistics.
+ Collier, Bonnie. Unpublished Master’s Thesis. 1969 Fine treatment of the years between 1783-1800. Counters current scholarship on the lull of Party activity in the years following the Revolutionary War.
* Collier, Christopher.
Bloody Country
Narrative follows pioneers from Connecticut to the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania. Studies the problem of Federalism.
* Collier, Christopher.
Winter Hero.
Attempts to reveal the options available to abused citizens in a democratic regime.
++ Cuningham, Noble.
The Jeffersonain Republicans: 1789-1801
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: North Carolina Press, 1963. Gives a good analysis of the rise of the Democratic-Republicans in a national perspective with emphasis on the role of the Press.
++ Formisano, Ronald. “Deferential Participant Politics.”
American
Political Science Review
. June 1974. Incisive work which outlines the type of deference Politics existent in the early 19th century.
+ Hofstader, Richard.
The Idea of a Party
System. New York: Vintage Books. 1968.
+ Main, Jackson Turner.
Political Parties Before the Constitution
. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press. 1973. In a study of legislative voting patterns before the Revolution he finds early party divisions between localists and Cosmopolitans. Most states of the time are extensively treated.
+
Public Records of the State of Connecticut, Volume XI,
ed. by Christopher Collier, Hartford. Connecticut State Library. 1967. In the introduction Collier gives a good discussion of party issues and development from 1800-1802.
+ Purcell, Richard.
Connecticut in Transition 1775-1818
. Wesleyan: Wesleyan Press. 1963.
+ Zeichner, Oscar.
Connecticut’s Years of Controversy 1750-1776.
Richmond, Virginia: William Byrd Press. 1946.