Author: Mary Lou Lustig
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838639368
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Andros also made significant attempts to increase the population and improve the economy of New York."--Cover.
Author: Boston Public Library
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)
Author: George Peabody Library
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
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Author: Richard Godbeer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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The Devil's Dominion examines the use of folk magic by ordinary men and women in early New England. The book describes in vivid detail the magical techniques used by settlers and the assumptions which underlaid them. Godbeer argues that layfolk were generally far less consistent in their beliefs and actions than their ministers would have liked; even church members sometimes turned to magic. The Devil's Dominion reveals that the relationship between magical and religious belief was complex and ambivalent: some members of the community rejected magic altogether, but others did not. Godbeer argues that the controversy surrounding astrological prediction in early New England paralleled clerical condemnation of magical practice, and that the different perspectives on witchcraft engendered by magical tradition and Puritan doctrine often caused confusion and disagreement when New Englanders sought legal punishment of witches.
Author: Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
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Author: John Frederick Martin
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146960003X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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In examining the founding of New England towns during the seventeenth century, John Frederick Martin investigates an old subject with fresh insight. Whereas most historians emphasize communalism and absence of commerce in the seventeenth century, Martin demonstrates that colonists sought profits in town-founding, that town founders used business corporations to organize themselves into landholding bodies, and that multiple and absentee landholding was common. In reviewing some sixty towns and the activities of one hundred town founders, Martin finds that many town residents were excluded from owning common lands and from voting. It was not until the end of the seventeenth century, when proprietors separated from towns, that town institutions emerged as fully public entities for the first time. Martin's study will challenge historians to rethink not only social history but also the cultural history of early New England. Instead of taking sides in the long-standing debate between Puritan scholars and business historians, Martin identifies strains within Puritanism and the rest of the colonists' culture that both discouraged and encouraged land commerce, both supported and undermined communalism, both hindered and hastened development of the wilderness. Rather than portray colonists one-dimensionally, Martin analyzes how several different and competing ethics coexisted within a single, complex, and vibrant New England culture.
Author: John Andrew Doyle
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Author: Dror Goldberg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226825108
Category : Legal tender
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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Introductions. Money and its inventions: theoretical considerations ; England in the late sixteenth century ; English developments, 1584-1692 -- The Atlantic. Before 1630: harvesters of money ; The Puritan exodus, 1629-1640: general features ; Massachusetts takes the monetary lead, 1630-1640 ; A new hope, 1640-1660 ; The empire strikes back, 1660-1686 ; Governments and paper money projects, 1685-1689 ; The Massachusetts legislator: the case of Elisha Hutchinson ; The return of the general court, 1689-1690 -- A monetary revolution. The legal tender law, 1690 ; Aftermath, 1691-1692 ; Back to England's financial revolution, 1692-1700 ; Analysis ; Conclusion.
Author: Kenneth Ballard Murdock
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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