Author: Perry MILLER
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674041046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
In The New England Mind: From Colony to Province, as well as its predecessor The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, Perry Miller asserts a single intellectual history for America that could be traced to the Puritan belief system.
The New England Mind
Author: Perry MILLER
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674041046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
In The New England Mind: From Colony to Province, as well as its predecessor The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, Perry Miller asserts a single intellectual history for America that could be traced to the Puritan belief system.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674041046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
In The New England Mind: From Colony to Province, as well as its predecessor The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, Perry Miller asserts a single intellectual history for America that could be traced to the Puritan belief system.
New-England's Rarities Discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country
Author: John Josselyn
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Category : Botany, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Category : Botany, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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The Founding of New England
Author: James Truslow Adams
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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New English Canaan of Thomas Morton
Author: Thomas Morton
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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A Compendious History of New England
Author: John Gorham Palfrey
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Writing New England
Author: Andrew Delbanco
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674006034
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
From John Winthrop and Anne Bradstreet to Emerson, Hawthorne, Dickinson, and Thoreau to Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and John Updike, this anthology provides a collective self-portrait of the New England mind from the Puritans to the present. 9 halftones.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674006034
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
From John Winthrop and Anne Bradstreet to Emerson, Hawthorne, Dickinson, and Thoreau to Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and John Updike, this anthology provides a collective self-portrait of the New England mind from the Puritans to the present. 9 halftones.
A Description of New England; Or, The Observations, and Discoveries of Captain John Smith, (admiral of that Country)
Author: John Smith
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Town Born
Author: Barry Levy
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812241778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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: 9780812241778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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.
New England Forests Through Time
Author: David R. Foster
Publisher: Harvard University Forest
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Over the past three hundred years New England's landscape has been transformed. The forests were cleared; the land was farmed intensively through the mid-nineteenth century and then was allowed to reforest naturally as agriculture shifted west. Today, in many ways the region is more natural than at any time since the American Revolution. This fascinating natural history is essential background for anyone interested in New England's ecology, wildlife, or landscape. In New England Forests through Time these historical and environmental lessons are told through the world-renowned dioramas in Harvard's Fisher Museum. These remarkable models have introduced New England's landscape to countless visitors and have appeared in many ecology, forestry, and natural history texts. This first book based on the dioramas conveys the phenomenal history of the land, the beauty of the models, and new insights into nature.
Publisher: Harvard University Forest
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Over the past three hundred years New England's landscape has been transformed. The forests were cleared; the land was farmed intensively through the mid-nineteenth century and then was allowed to reforest naturally as agriculture shifted west. Today, in many ways the region is more natural than at any time since the American Revolution. This fascinating natural history is essential background for anyone interested in New England's ecology, wildlife, or landscape. In New England Forests through Time these historical and environmental lessons are told through the world-renowned dioramas in Harvard's Fisher Museum. These remarkable models have introduced New England's landscape to countless visitors and have appeared in many ecology, forestry, and natural history texts. This first book based on the dioramas conveys the phenomenal history of the land, the beauty of the models, and new insights into nature.
A General History of New England
Author: William Hubbard
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Publisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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