Author: Preston R. Crowell
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Category : Stow (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Stow, Massachusetts, 1683-1933
Author: Preston R. Crowell
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Category : Stow (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Category : Stow (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Beyond the Farm
Author: J. M. Opal
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812221567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
During the first half-century of American independence, a fundamental change in the meaning and morality of ambition emerged in American culture. Long stigmatized as a dangerous passion that led people to pursue fame at the expense of duty, ambition also raised concerns among American Revolutionaries who espoused self-sacrifice. After the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the creation of the federal republic in 1789, however, a new ethos of nation-making took hold in which ambition, properly cultivated, could rescue talent and virtue from the parochial needs of the family farm. Rather than an apology for an emerging market culture of material desire and commercial dealing, ambition became a civic project—a concerted reply to the localism of provincial life. By thus attaching itself to the national self-image during the early years of the Republic, before the wrenching upheavals of the Industrial Revolution, ambitious striving achieved a cultural dominance that future generations took for granted. Beyond the Farm not only describes this transformation as a national effort but also explores it as a personal journey. Centered on the lives of six aspiring men from the New England countryside, the book follows them from youthful days full of hope and unrest to eventual careers marked by surprising success and crushing failure. Along the way, J. M. Opal recovers such intimate dramas as a young man's abandonment by his self-made parents, a village printer's dreams of small-town fame, and a headstrong boy's efforts to both surpass and honor his family. By relating the vast abstractions of nation and ambition to the everyday milieus of home, work, and school, Beyond the Farm reconsiders the roots of American individualism in vivid detail and moral complexity.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812221567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
During the first half-century of American independence, a fundamental change in the meaning and morality of ambition emerged in American culture. Long stigmatized as a dangerous passion that led people to pursue fame at the expense of duty, ambition also raised concerns among American Revolutionaries who espoused self-sacrifice. After the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the creation of the federal republic in 1789, however, a new ethos of nation-making took hold in which ambition, properly cultivated, could rescue talent and virtue from the parochial needs of the family farm. Rather than an apology for an emerging market culture of material desire and commercial dealing, ambition became a civic project—a concerted reply to the localism of provincial life. By thus attaching itself to the national self-image during the early years of the Republic, before the wrenching upheavals of the Industrial Revolution, ambitious striving achieved a cultural dominance that future generations took for granted. Beyond the Farm not only describes this transformation as a national effort but also explores it as a personal journey. Centered on the lives of six aspiring men from the New England countryside, the book follows them from youthful days full of hope and unrest to eventual careers marked by surprising success and crushing failure. Along the way, J. M. Opal recovers such intimate dramas as a young man's abandonment by his self-made parents, a village printer's dreams of small-town fame, and a headstrong boy's efforts to both surpass and honor his family. By relating the vast abstractions of nation and ambition to the everyday milieus of home, work, and school, Beyond the Farm reconsiders the roots of American individualism in vivid detail and moral complexity.
Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 2380
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Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 2380
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A History of the Heverly Family, Including the Spellings Hever, Heverle, Heverley, Everle, Everley, Everly, and Eveleth
Author: Neal F. Mears
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Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Descendants of Jacob Farrar Jr and Hannah Hayward of Lancaster, Massachusetts to 1825
Author: Sue Farrar Thorne
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Jacob Farrar was born in 1641 in Sowerby, Yorkshire, England. His parents were Jacob Farrar and Grace Deane. He emigrated in 1652 and settled in Dedham, Massachusetts. He married Hannah Hayward 11 November 1668 in Lancaster. They had four children. Jacob died in 1675. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts and Maine.
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Jacob Farrar was born in 1641 in Sowerby, Yorkshire, England. His parents were Jacob Farrar and Grace Deane. He emigrated in 1652 and settled in Dedham, Massachusetts. He married Hannah Hayward 11 November 1668 in Lancaster. They had four children. Jacob died in 1675. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts and Maine.
Man in the Northeast
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Some Descendants of Richard Gardner of Woburn, Massachusetts
Author: Susan Mary Brandt Cole
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Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Author: John Langdon Sibley
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Vols. 4-17 were done by Clifford Kenyon Shipton.
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Vols. 4-17 were done by Clifford Kenyon Shipton.
Historical Collections of the Essex Institute
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Category : Essex County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Category : Essex County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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