Author: New Hampshire
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Shaking the Faith
Author: Elizabeth De Wolfe
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137092629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
In the first half of the 19th century, Mary Marshall Dyer (1780-1867) was at the center of an aggressive anti-Shaker movement - an informal yet effective group joined by their despisal of Shakerism and their determination to thwart the new faith. With her husband and their five children, Dyer had been a Shaker for two years, but as her husband grew increasingly attracted to Shakerism, Dyer's own commitment waned, and when she announced she was leaving the sect and requested the return of her children , neither her husband nor the Shaker authorities would relinquish them. Distraught, angry, and alone, Dyer turned her anguish into action and embarked on a fifty year campaign against the Shakers. A linchpin of anti-Shaker activity, Dyer wrote numerous articles against the sect, as well as five books - and was the centerpiece of the Shakers' counterattack. The American public - especially in New England, where the Shaker movement was based - followed the debate with great interest, not least because it offered titillating details into the mysterious sect, but also because Dyer's experiences reflected profound changes in the family, religion, and gender that Americans faced in the years prior to the Civil War. In this compelling book, De Wolfe suggests that while neither the Shakers nor Dyer would agree, the latter, a mother without children and a wife without a husband, and the former, a celibate communal sect that disavowed the marriage bond, shared similar positions on the margins of society.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137092629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
In the first half of the 19th century, Mary Marshall Dyer (1780-1867) was at the center of an aggressive anti-Shaker movement - an informal yet effective group joined by their despisal of Shakerism and their determination to thwart the new faith. With her husband and their five children, Dyer had been a Shaker for two years, but as her husband grew increasingly attracted to Shakerism, Dyer's own commitment waned, and when she announced she was leaving the sect and requested the return of her children , neither her husband nor the Shaker authorities would relinquish them. Distraught, angry, and alone, Dyer turned her anguish into action and embarked on a fifty year campaign against the Shakers. A linchpin of anti-Shaker activity, Dyer wrote numerous articles against the sect, as well as five books - and was the centerpiece of the Shakers' counterattack. The American public - especially in New England, where the Shaker movement was based - followed the debate with great interest, not least because it offered titillating details into the mysterious sect, but also because Dyer's experiences reflected profound changes in the family, religion, and gender that Americans faced in the years prior to the Civil War. In this compelling book, De Wolfe suggests that while neither the Shakers nor Dyer would agree, the latter, a mother without children and a wife without a husband, and the former, a celibate communal sect that disavowed the marriage bond, shared similar positions on the margins of society.
Historical New Hampshire
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Category : New Hampshire
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Category : New Hampshire
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Sam Coverly's Journal with Historical Notes
Author: John A. Albertini
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527578399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Sam Coverly was an entrepreneur and an adventurous traveler. His trading took him to China and England, to Montreal and Washington, DC, and as far west as the Missouri Territory. His detailed descriptions of the people and places he visits will appeal to students of early American history and maritime and cultural historians. Born in 1793, the same year as George Washington began his second term as President of the United States, Sam lived to see national roads and a canal built to the western frontier and steamboats plying rivers and lakes. He saw a ten-fold population increase in his beloved Boston and a doubling of the country’s landmass. His journal and correspondence provide readers with eyewitness accounts of life in a rapidly expanding country at the threshold of industrialization and a transportation revolution.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527578399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Sam Coverly was an entrepreneur and an adventurous traveler. His trading took him to China and England, to Montreal and Washington, DC, and as far west as the Missouri Territory. His detailed descriptions of the people and places he visits will appeal to students of early American history and maritime and cultural historians. Born in 1793, the same year as George Washington began his second term as President of the United States, Sam lived to see national roads and a canal built to the western frontier and steamboats plying rivers and lakes. He saw a ten-fold population increase in his beloved Boston and a doubling of the country’s landmass. His journal and correspondence provide readers with eyewitness accounts of life in a rapidly expanding country at the threshold of industrialization and a transportation revolution.
Writings on American History
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America, and of the Several States of the American Union
Author: John Bouvier
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Category : Anglo-Norman dialect
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Category : Anglo-Norman dialect
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical Association
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Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Religion and American Culture
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Category : Religion and culture
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Category : Religion and culture
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America, and of the Several States of the American Union: With References to the Civil and other Systems of Foreign Law
Author: John Bouvier
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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Men, Cities and Transportation
Author: Edward Chase Kirkland
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Catalog of Government Publications in the Research Libraries
Author: New York Public Library. Economic and Public Affairs Division
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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