Author: Lemuel Shattuck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concord (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
A History of the Town of Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Author: Lemuel Shattuck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concord (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concord (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
A History of the Town of Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Author: Lemuel Shattuck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acton (Mass. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acton (Mass. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Catalogue of the Groton Public Library, at Groton, Mass
Author: Groton Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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The Civic Constitution
Author: Elizabeth Beaumont
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199940061
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
The Civic Constitution provides a compelling case for rethinking the U.S. Constitution. By exploring pivotal struggles over governmental power, individual rights, and the boundaries of citizenship, this book challenges reigning approaches and reveals the profound importance of 'civic founders' who worked to reinvent the constitutional order.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199940061
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
The Civic Constitution provides a compelling case for rethinking the U.S. Constitution. By exploring pivotal struggles over governmental power, individual rights, and the boundaries of citizenship, this book challenges reigning approaches and reveals the profound importance of 'civic founders' who worked to reinvent the constitutional order.
Thoreau’s Democratic Withdrawal
Author: Shannon L. Mariotti
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299233936
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Best known for his two-year sojourn at Walden Pond in Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau is often considered a recluse who emerged from solitude only occasionally to take a stand on the issues of his day. In Thoreau’s Democratic Withdrawal, Shannon L. Mariotti explores Thoreau’s nature writings to offer a new way of understanding the unique politics of the so-called hermit of Walden Pond. Drawing imaginatively from the twentieth-century German social theorist Theodor W. Adorno, she shows how withdrawal from the public sphere can paradoxically be a valuable part of democratic politics. Separated by time, space, and context, Thoreau and Adorno share a common belief that critical inquiry is essential to democracy but threatened by modern society. While walking, huckleberrying, and picking wild apples, Thoreau tries to recover the capacities for independent perception and thought that are blunted by “Main Street,” conventional society, and the rapidly industrializing world that surrounded him. Adorno’s thoughts on particularity and the microscopic gaze he employs to work against the alienated experience of modernity help us better understand the value of Thoreau’s excursions into nature. Reading Thoreau with Adorno, we see how periodic withdrawals from public spaces are not necessarily apolitical or apathetic but can revitalize our capacity for the critical thought that truly defines democracy. In graceful, readable prose, Mariotti reintroduces us to a celebrated American thinker, offers new insights on Adorno, and highlights the striking common ground they share. Their provocative and challenging ideas, she shows, still hold lessons on how we can be responsible citizens in a society that often discourages original, critical analysis of public issues.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299233936
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Best known for his two-year sojourn at Walden Pond in Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau is often considered a recluse who emerged from solitude only occasionally to take a stand on the issues of his day. In Thoreau’s Democratic Withdrawal, Shannon L. Mariotti explores Thoreau’s nature writings to offer a new way of understanding the unique politics of the so-called hermit of Walden Pond. Drawing imaginatively from the twentieth-century German social theorist Theodor W. Adorno, she shows how withdrawal from the public sphere can paradoxically be a valuable part of democratic politics. Separated by time, space, and context, Thoreau and Adorno share a common belief that critical inquiry is essential to democracy but threatened by modern society. While walking, huckleberrying, and picking wild apples, Thoreau tries to recover the capacities for independent perception and thought that are blunted by “Main Street,” conventional society, and the rapidly industrializing world that surrounded him. Adorno’s thoughts on particularity and the microscopic gaze he employs to work against the alienated experience of modernity help us better understand the value of Thoreau’s excursions into nature. Reading Thoreau with Adorno, we see how periodic withdrawals from public spaces are not necessarily apolitical or apathetic but can revitalize our capacity for the critical thought that truly defines democracy. In graceful, readable prose, Mariotti reintroduces us to a celebrated American thinker, offers new insights on Adorno, and highlights the striking common ground they share. Their provocative and challenging ideas, she shows, still hold lessons on how we can be responsible citizens in a society that often discourages original, critical analysis of public issues.
Catalogue Or the Groton Public Library; with the By-Laws and Regulations
Author: Public Library (GROTON, Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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From Bulkeley to Bulkley to Buckley
Author: Thomas Taylor
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469120313
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Drawing from a wide range of sources, this work is a continuation of one line of the Bulkeley family, focusing on the ancestors and descendants of Moses Bulkley (1727-1812) last presented in The Bulkeley Genealogy by Donald Lines Jacobus in 1933. The relationship between the earliest American ancestors on this line, Reverend Peter Bulkeley and Reverend John Jones, founders of the First Parish Church in Concord, Massachusetts in 1636, is re-examined. New evidence revealing critical errors made by Concord historians since 1835 will re-characterize the essential clerical friendship the two men shared and show the true reasons for John Jones's removal to Fairfield, Connecticut in 1644. Using census records, rare newspaper articles, obituaries, wills, surrogate court records, and family stories, this line of the Bulkeleys of Concord and Fairfield is chronicled in a new family history covering the mid-18th century to the present. The Bulkeley/Bulkley/Buckley genealogy is supplemented with genealogies of several families these Bulkeley/Bulkley/Buckleys married with in the 19th and 20th centuries. This work evolved into a "search and rescue mission," and offers a comprehensive on-paper reunion of families that have been documented to the beginning of the 20th century, and a few who have never been documented in a genealogy.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469120313
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Drawing from a wide range of sources, this work is a continuation of one line of the Bulkeley family, focusing on the ancestors and descendants of Moses Bulkley (1727-1812) last presented in The Bulkeley Genealogy by Donald Lines Jacobus in 1933. The relationship between the earliest American ancestors on this line, Reverend Peter Bulkeley and Reverend John Jones, founders of the First Parish Church in Concord, Massachusetts in 1636, is re-examined. New evidence revealing critical errors made by Concord historians since 1835 will re-characterize the essential clerical friendship the two men shared and show the true reasons for John Jones's removal to Fairfield, Connecticut in 1644. Using census records, rare newspaper articles, obituaries, wills, surrogate court records, and family stories, this line of the Bulkeleys of Concord and Fairfield is chronicled in a new family history covering the mid-18th century to the present. The Bulkeley/Bulkley/Buckley genealogy is supplemented with genealogies of several families these Bulkeley/Bulkley/Buckleys married with in the 19th and 20th centuries. This work evolved into a "search and rescue mission," and offers a comprehensive on-paper reunion of families that have been documented to the beginning of the 20th century, and a few who have never been documented in a genealogy.
A Guide to Massachusetts Local History
Author: Charles Allcott Flagg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Annual List of Books Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
Publisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Bulletin
Author: Cincinnati (Ohio), Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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