Author: Walton-le-Dale, Eng. (Parish)
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Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
The Registers of the Parish Walton-le-Dale in the County of Lancaster
Author: Walton-le-Dale, Eng. (Parish)
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Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
The Registers of the Parish Church of Bury in the County of Lancasrter: 1590 to 1616
Author: Bury (Greater Manchester, England). Parish
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Category : Bury (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Category : Bury (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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The Registers of the Parish Church of Penwortham in the County of Lancaster
Author: Penwortham, Eng. (Parish)
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Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Town Born
Author: Barry Levy
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812202619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, British colonists found the New World full of resources. With land readily available but workers in short supply, settlers developed coercive forms of labor—indentured servitude and chattel slavery—in order to produce staple export crops like rice, wheat, and tobacco. This brutal labor regime became common throughout most of the colonies. An important exception was New England, where settlers and their descendants did most work themselves. In Town Born, Barry Levy shows that New England's distinctive and far more egalitarian order was due neither to the colonists' peasant traditionalism nor to the region's inhospitable environment. Instead, New England's labor system and relative equality were every bit a consequence of its innovative system of governance, which placed nearly all land under the control of several hundred self-governing town meetings. As Levy shows, these town meetings were not simply sites of empty democratic rituals but were used to organize, force, and reconcile laborers, families, and entrepreneurs into profitable export economies. The town meetings protected the value of local labor by persistently excluding outsiders and privileging the town born. The town-centered political economy of New England created a large region in which labor earned respect, relative equity ruled, workers exercised political power despite doing the most arduous tasks, and the burdens of work were absorbed by citizens themselves. In a closely observed and well-researched narrative, Town Born reveals how this social order helped create the foundation for American society.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812202619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, British colonists found the New World full of resources. With land readily available but workers in short supply, settlers developed coercive forms of labor—indentured servitude and chattel slavery—in order to produce staple export crops like rice, wheat, and tobacco. This brutal labor regime became common throughout most of the colonies. An important exception was New England, where settlers and their descendants did most work themselves. In Town Born, Barry Levy shows that New England's distinctive and far more egalitarian order was due neither to the colonists' peasant traditionalism nor to the region's inhospitable environment. Instead, New England's labor system and relative equality were every bit a consequence of its innovative system of governance, which placed nearly all land under the control of several hundred self-governing town meetings. As Levy shows, these town meetings were not simply sites of empty democratic rituals but were used to organize, force, and reconcile laborers, families, and entrepreneurs into profitable export economies. The town meetings protected the value of local labor by persistently excluding outsiders and privileging the town born. The town-centered political economy of New England created a large region in which labor earned respect, relative equity ruled, workers exercised political power despite doing the most arduous tasks, and the burdens of work were absorbed by citizens themselves. In a closely observed and well-researched narrative, Town Born reveals how this social order helped create the foundation for American society.
The Registers of the Parish Church of Blackburn in the County of Lancaster: 1600-1660
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Category : Blackburn (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Category : Blackburn (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Tracing Your Lancashire Ancestors
Author: Sue Wilkes
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1848847440
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"Sue Wilkes’s accessible and informative handbook outlines Lancashire’s history and describes the origins of its major industries - cotton, coal, transport, engineering, shipbuilding and others. She looks at the stories of important Lancashire families such as the Stanleys, Molyneuxs and Egertons, and famous entrepreneurs such as Richard Arkwright, in order to illustrate aspects of Lancashire life and to show how the many sources available for family and local history research can be used. Relevant documents, specialist archives and libraries, background reading and other sources are recommended throughout this practical book. Also included is a directory of Lancashire archives, libraries and academic repositories, as well as databases of family history societies, useful genealogy websites, and places to visit which bring Lancashire’s past to life"--Book jacket.
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1848847440
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"Sue Wilkes’s accessible and informative handbook outlines Lancashire’s history and describes the origins of its major industries - cotton, coal, transport, engineering, shipbuilding and others. She looks at the stories of important Lancashire families such as the Stanleys, Molyneuxs and Egertons, and famous entrepreneurs such as Richard Arkwright, in order to illustrate aspects of Lancashire life and to show how the many sources available for family and local history research can be used. Relevant documents, specialist archives and libraries, background reading and other sources are recommended throughout this practical book. Also included is a directory of Lancashire archives, libraries and academic repositories, as well as databases of family history societies, useful genealogy websites, and places to visit which bring Lancashire’s past to life"--Book jacket.
The Ecclesiastical gazette, or, Monthly register of the affairs of the Church of England
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Courtship, Illegitimacy, and Marriage in Early Modern England
Author: Richard Adair
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719042522
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This is a study of bastardy and marriage between the 16th and 18th centuries, exploring the topic from a regional perspective. The book asserts that the very concept of national demographic data is shown to be deeply flawed.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719042522
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This is a study of bastardy and marriage between the 16th and 18th centuries, exploring the topic from a regional perspective. The book asserts that the very concept of national demographic data is shown to be deeply flawed.
The Registers of the Parish Church of Chorley
Author: Chorley, Lancashire, Eng. (Parish)
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Category : Chorley (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Category : Chorley (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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The Registers of the Parish Church of Bispham, in the County of Lancaster
Author: Bispham, Eng. (Parish)
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Category : Bispham, Eng
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Category : Bispham, Eng
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description