As shown by historians of eighteenth-century England, such history can greatly illuminate the power relations in early urban America and how power and the representation thereof functioned in a public setting.

• 就如英国十八世纪史学家显示，这样的历史可以很强烈地阐明早期美国市区的权势关系以及权势和它的表现如何在公共场合中运作。