Author: Newton (Mass.)
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ISBN:
Category : Newton (Mass. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts
Author: Newton (Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Newton (Mass. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Newton (Mass. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Vital Records of Dalton, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850
Author: Dalton (Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dalton (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dalton (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Vital Records of Greenfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850
Author: Greenfield (Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850
Author: Newton (Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts
Author: Marlborough (Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marlborough (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Alphabetical indexes to the manuscript records of the town, supplemented by information from church registers, cemetery inscriptions and other sources.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marlborough (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Alphabetical indexes to the manuscript records of the town, supplemented by information from church registers, cemetery inscriptions and other sources.
Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850...: Marriages and deaths
Author: Weymouth (Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Vital Records of Rochester, Massachusetts
Author: Rochester (Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
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.
Vital Records of Waltham, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850
Author: Waltham (Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digital images
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digital images
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Norumbega Park and Totem Pole Ballroom
Author: Clara Silverstein
Publisher: Images of America
ISBN: 9781467106337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher: Images of America
ISBN: 9781467106337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description