Author: Mark Williams
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300139225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The colonists who settled the backcountry in eighteenth-century New England were recruited from the social fringe, people who were desperate for land, autonomy, and respectability and who were willing to make a hard living in a rugged environment. Mark Williams’ microhistorical approach gives voice to the settlers, proprietors, and officials of the small colonial settlements that became Granby, Connecticut, and Ashfield, Massachusetts. These people—often disrespectful, disorderly, presumptuous, insistent, and defiant—were drawn to the ideology of the Revolution in the 1760s and 1770s that stressed equality, independence, and property rights. The backcountry settlers pushed the emerging nation’s political culture in a more radical direction than many of their leaders or the Founding Fathers preferred and helped put a democratic imprint on the new nation. This accessibly written book will resonate with all those interested in the social and political relationships of early America.
The Brittle Thread of Life
Author: Mark Williams
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300139225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The colonists who settled the backcountry in eighteenth-century New England were recruited from the social fringe, people who were desperate for land, autonomy, and respectability and who were willing to make a hard living in a rugged environment. Mark Williams’ microhistorical approach gives voice to the settlers, proprietors, and officials of the small colonial settlements that became Granby, Connecticut, and Ashfield, Massachusetts. These people—often disrespectful, disorderly, presumptuous, insistent, and defiant—were drawn to the ideology of the Revolution in the 1760s and 1770s that stressed equality, independence, and property rights. The backcountry settlers pushed the emerging nation’s political culture in a more radical direction than many of their leaders or the Founding Fathers preferred and helped put a democratic imprint on the new nation. This accessibly written book will resonate with all those interested in the social and political relationships of early America.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300139225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The colonists who settled the backcountry in eighteenth-century New England were recruited from the social fringe, people who were desperate for land, autonomy, and respectability and who were willing to make a hard living in a rugged environment. Mark Williams’ microhistorical approach gives voice to the settlers, proprietors, and officials of the small colonial settlements that became Granby, Connecticut, and Ashfield, Massachusetts. These people—often disrespectful, disorderly, presumptuous, insistent, and defiant—were drawn to the ideology of the Revolution in the 1760s and 1770s that stressed equality, independence, and property rights. The backcountry settlers pushed the emerging nation’s political culture in a more radical direction than many of their leaders or the Founding Fathers preferred and helped put a democratic imprint on the new nation. This accessibly written book will resonate with all those interested in the social and political relationships of early America.
Memoirs and Select Papers of Horace B. Morse, A. B., of Haverhill, N.H.
Author: Charles Burroughs
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Proceedings
Author: Bar Association of the State of New Hampshire
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Proceedings of the Bar Association of the State of New Hampshire
Author: Bar Association of the State of New Hampshire
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Category : Bar associations
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
List of members in v. 1, 2.
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Category : Bar associations
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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List of members in v. 1, 2.
Sermons on Practical Subjects
Author: Robert Walker
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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Proceedings of the Bar Association of the State of New Hampshire at Its Annual Meeting ...
Author: Bar Association of the State of New Hampshire
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Category : Bar associations
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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Category : Bar associations
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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Reflection on the Works of God in Nature and Providence, for every day in the year ... Translated from the French, and collated with the German, by A. Clarke
Author: Christoph Christian STURM
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Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Languages : en
Pages : 306
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History of Freemasonry in Maryland ...
Author: Edward Thomas Schultz
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Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Letters on Masonry and Anti-masonry
Author: William Leete Stone
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Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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The Journal of the Allied Dental Societies
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Category : Dentistry
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Category : Dentistry
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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