Author: Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society (Dorchester, Boston, Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dorchester (Boston, Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
History of the Town of Dorchester, Massachusetts
Author: Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society (Dorchester, Boston, Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dorchester (Boston, Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dorchester (Boston, Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Records of the First Church at Dorchester, in New England, 1636-1734
Author: First Church (Dorchester, Boston, Mass.)
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Category : Dorchester (Boston, Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dorchester (Boston, Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Annals of the Town of Dorchester
Author: James Blake
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781017105667
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781017105667
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Good Old Dorchester
Author: William Dana Orcutt
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Category : Dorchester (Boston, Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dorchester (Boston, Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Dorchester
Author: Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
ISBN: 9780752402284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
ISBN: 9780752402284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
History of Dorchester County, Maryland
Author: Elias Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825
Author: Dorchester (Boston, Mass.)
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Category : Dorchester (Boston, Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Publisher:
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Category : Dorchester (Boston, Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Fire from Heaven
Author: David Underdown
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780712609159
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Two hundred years before Hardy disguised it as Casterbridge, Dorchester was a typical English county town, of middling size and unremarkable achievements. But on 6 August 1613 much of it was destroyed in a great conflagration, which its inhabitants regarded as a 'fire from heaven', the catalyst for the events described in this book. Over the next twenty years, a time of increasing political and religious turmoil all over Europe, Dorchester became the most religiously radical town in the kingdom. The tolerant, paternalist Elizabethan town oligarchy was quickly replaced by a group of men who had a vision of a godly community in which power was to be exercised according to religious commitment rather than wealth or rank. One of this book's most remarkable achievements is the re-creation, with an intimacy unique for an English community so distant from our own, of the lives of those who do not make it into history books. We glimpse the ordinary men and women of the town drinking and swearing, fornicating and repenting, triumphing over their neighbours or languishing in prison, striving to live up to the new ideals of their community or rejecting them with bitter anger and mocking laughter. In it subtle exploration of human motives and aspirations, in its brilliant and detailed reconstruction, this book shows how much of the past we can recover when in the hands of a master historian.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780712609159
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Two hundred years before Hardy disguised it as Casterbridge, Dorchester was a typical English county town, of middling size and unremarkable achievements. But on 6 August 1613 much of it was destroyed in a great conflagration, which its inhabitants regarded as a 'fire from heaven', the catalyst for the events described in this book. Over the next twenty years, a time of increasing political and religious turmoil all over Europe, Dorchester became the most religiously radical town in the kingdom. The tolerant, paternalist Elizabethan town oligarchy was quickly replaced by a group of men who had a vision of a godly community in which power was to be exercised according to religious commitment rather than wealth or rank. One of this book's most remarkable achievements is the re-creation, with an intimacy unique for an English community so distant from our own, of the lives of those who do not make it into history books. We glimpse the ordinary men and women of the town drinking and swearing, fornicating and repenting, triumphing over their neighbours or languishing in prison, striving to live up to the new ideals of their community or rejecting them with bitter anger and mocking laughter. In it subtle exploration of human motives and aspirations, in its brilliant and detailed reconstruction, this book shows how much of the past we can recover when in the hands of a master historian.
Dorchester Days
Author: Eugene Richards
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A photographic portrait of small town America in the 1970s.
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A photographic portrait of small town America in the 1970s.
The history of Fordington
Author: Richard Grosvenor Bartelot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fordington (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fordington (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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