Author: Library of Congress. Division of Documents
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Monthly Check-list of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Division of Documents
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Monthly List of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Division of Documents
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
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.
List of Books Added from January 1st, 1900 to January 1st, 1908
Author: Free Public Library (New Bedford, Mass.)
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Silver of the Americas, 1600-2000
Author: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Publisher: MFA Publications
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Edited by Gerald W.R. Ward and Jeannine Falino. Text by Gerald W.R. Ward, Jeannine Falino, Jane Port, Rebecca Ann Gay Reynolds.
Publisher: MFA Publications
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Edited by Gerald W.R. Ward and Jeannine Falino. Text by Gerald W.R. Ward, Jeannine Falino, Jane Port, Rebecca Ann Gay Reynolds.
Wisconsin Page Pioneers and Kinsfolk
Author: Ethel McLaughlin Turner
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Author:
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
Publisher:
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
Proceedings of the New England Historic Genealogical Society
Author: New England Historic Genealogical Society
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
News Notes of California Libraries
Author: California State Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1878
Book Description
Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.
Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1878
Book Description
Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.