Author: David Brainerd Hall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 832

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: David D. Hall
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691203377
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526

Get Book Here

Book Description
"Shedding critical new light on the diverse forms of Puritan belief and practice in England, Scotland, and New England, Hall provides a multifaceted account of a cultural movement that judged the Protestant reforms of Elizabeth's reign to be unfinished"--Provided by publisher.

Author: James Shepard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Frank M. Bryan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226077985
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333

Get Book Here

Book Description
Relying on an astounding collection of more than three decades of firsthand research, Frank M. Bryan examines one of the purest forms of American democracy, the New England town meeting. At these meetings, usually held once a year, all eligible citizens of the town may become legislators; they meet in face-to-face assemblies, debate the issues on the agenda, and vote on them. And although these meetings are natural laboratories for democracy, very few scholars have systematically investigated them. A nationally recognized expert on this topic, Bryan has now done just that. Studying 1,500 town meetings in his home state of Vermont, he and his students recorded a staggering amount of data about them—238,603 acts of participation by 63,140 citizens in 210 different towns. Drawing on this evidence as well as on evocative "witness" accounts—from casual observers to no lesser a light than Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn—Bryan paints a vivid picture of how real democracy works. Among the many fascinating questions he explores: why attendance varies sharply with town size, how citizens resolve conflicts in open forums, and how men and women behave differently in town meetings. In the end, Bryan interprets this brand of local government to find evidence for its considerable staying power as the most authentic and meaningful form of direct democracy. Giving us a rare glimpse into how democracy works in the real world, Bryan presents here an unorthodox and definitive book on this most cherished of American institutions.

Author: Moses Foster Sweetser
Publisher: Boston : Ticknor
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 576

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Lorenzo Sabine
Publisher: Boston : Published by Williams & Company, for the Society
ISBN:
Category : Québec (Québec)
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 782

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: W. C. Jameson
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874834857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Get Book Here

Book Description
Discusses buried treasures located in New England, describing the types of treasures and attempts to retrieve them

Author: Moses Foster Sweetser
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 552

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Meredith Hall
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807016314
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Get Book Here

Book Description
The national best-selling memoir about banishment, reconciliation, and the meaning of family "This sobering portrayal of a pregnant teen exiled from her small New Hampshire community is a testament to the importance of understanding and even forgiving the people who . . . have made us who we are” —O, The Oprah Magazine A New York Times Bestseller, now with an epilogue from the author Meredith Hall’s moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether. After giving her baby up for adoption, Hall wanders recklessly through the Middle East, where she survives by selling her possessions and finally her blood. She returns to New England and stitches together a life that encircles her silenced and invisible grief. Her lost son tracks her down when he turns twenty-one, and Hall learns that he grew up in gritty poverty with an abusive father in her own father’s hometown. Their reunion is tender, turbulent, and ultimately redemptive. Hall’s parents never ask for her forgiveness, yet as they age, she offers them her love. Here, loss and betrayal evolve into compassion, and compassion into wisdom.