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A History Of The County Of Berkshire Massachusetts 1829
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Book Synopsis The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler by : Irene Quenzler Brown
Download or read book The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler written by Irene Quenzler Brown and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-30 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1806 an anxious crowd of thousands descended upon Lenox, Massachusetts, for the public hanging of Ephraim Wheeler, condemned for the rape of his thirteen-year-old daughter, Betsy. Not all witnesses believed justice had triumphed. The death penalty had become controversial; no one had been executed for rape in Massachusetts in more than a quarter century. Wheeler maintained his innocence. Over one hundred local citizens petitioned for his pardon--including, most remarkably, Betsy and her mother. Impoverished, illiterate, a failed farmer who married into a mixed-race family and clashed routinely with his wife, Wheeler existed on the margins of society. Using the trial report to reconstruct the tragic crime and drawing on Wheeler's jailhouse autobiography to unravel his troubled family history, Irene Quenzler Brown and Richard D. Brown illuminate a rarely seen slice of early America. They imaginatively and sensitively explore issues of family violence, poverty, gender, race and class, religion, and capital punishment, revealing similarities between death penalty politics in America today and two hundred years ago. Beautifully crafted, engagingly written, this unforgettable story probes deeply held beliefs about morality and about the nature of justice.
Book Synopsis A History of the County of Berkshire, Massachusetts, in Two Parts by : David Dudley Field
Download or read book A History of the County of Berkshire, Massachusetts, in Two Parts written by David Dudley Field and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Melville's Short Fiction, 1853-1856 by : William B. Dillingham
Download or read book Melville's Short Fiction, 1853-1856 written by William B. Dillingham and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study treats comprehensively the sixteen short works of fiction that Herman Melville wrote between 1853 and 1856, most of which were published in Harper's and Putnam's magazines. Concentrating on the writer's two basic motivations for writing as he did in these stories, Dillingham argues that Melville created a surface of almost inane congeniality in many of the works, an illusion of vapidity that camouflages a profundity often missed by his readers. He sought to to hide disturbing themes because the magazines for which he was writing would almost certainly have rejected his attempts to be more direct. Dillingham's method is not, however, confined to a reading of the texts. Melville's stories contain so many allusions to the contemporary scene that they constitute in themselves a cultural study. An important contribution of Melville's Short Fiction is its discussion of these allusions. Finally, Dillingham examines the relationship between the short fiction and Melville's own life. Much of the writer's frustration and struggle is concealed in these early works. Melville's friendship with Hawthorne, for example, an intense and yet in some ways disappointing relationship for both men, is explored as an important influence on several of the stories.
Book Synopsis The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by :
Download or read book The New England Historical and Genealogical Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, PUBLISHED QUARTERLY, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. FOR THE YEAR 1867. VOLUME XXI. by : ellas nason
Download or read book THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, PUBLISHED QUARTERLY, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. FOR THE YEAR 1867. VOLUME XXI. written by ellas nason and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliotheca Americana, 1883 by : Robert Clarke & Co
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana, 1883 written by Robert Clarke & Co and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis THE NEW-ENGLAND HISTORICAL & GEOLOGICAL REGISTER AND ANTIQUARIAN JOURNAL, by : John Albion Andrew
Download or read book THE NEW-ENGLAND HISTORICAL & GEOLOGICAL REGISTER AND ANTIQUARIAN JOURNAL, written by John Albion Andrew and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The New England Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal by :
Download or read book The New England Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliography of the Local History of Massachusetts. (Reprinted from the New-England Historical and Genealogical Register.). by : Jeremiah COLBURN
Download or read book Bibliography of the Local History of Massachusetts. (Reprinted from the New-England Historical and Genealogical Register.). written by Jeremiah COLBURN and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Widener Library Shelflist: American history by : Harvard University. Library
Download or read book Widener Library Shelflist: American history written by Harvard University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliography of the Local History of Massachusetts ... by : Jeremiah Colburn
Download or read book Bibliography of the Local History of Massachusetts ... written by Jeremiah Colburn and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New-England Historical and Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal by : Joseph Barlow Felt
Download or read book New-England Historical and Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal written by Joseph Barlow Felt and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Guide to Massachusetts Local History by : Charles Allcott Flagg
Download or read book A Guide to Massachusetts Local History written by Charles Allcott Flagg and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Most Wonderful Machine by : Judith A. McGaw
Download or read book Most Wonderful Machine written by Judith A. McGaw and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a visit to a Berkshire paper mill, the narrator of Herman Melville's "The Tartarus of Maids" views the "wonderful" papermaking machine with awe and calls it a "miracle of inscrutable intricacy." Manifesting in their factories and towns such nineteenth-century fascination with machinery, paper mill owners and workers made an industrial revolution in Berkshrie County, Massachusetts. This book examines their experiences from the era of craft production through several generations of sustained technological change to answer two major questions: What accounts for the widespread and rapid adoption of machines in nineteenth-century America? And how did the new technology help to transform America socially and culturally? Rejecting technological determinism, Judith McGaw effectively integrates labor, business, social, and women's history with technological history to bring to life the human decisions that made mechanization possible. In compelling detail the author offers new explanations of how change in the craft era paved the way for industrialization and how paternalism worked in small-scale industry. She also provides a thoughtful discussion of the interaction between evangelical culture and the emerging industrial order, and a close analysis of how nineteenth-century gender distinctions fostered mechanization. Judith A. McGaw is Assistant Professor of History of Technology at the University of Pennsylvania. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Book Synopsis Geology of Old Hampshire County, Massachusetts by : Benjamin Kendall Emerson
Download or read book Geology of Old Hampshire County, Massachusetts written by Benjamin Kendall Emerson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-06 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1898.
Book Synopsis Writings of Shaker Apostates and Anti-Shakers, 1782-1850 Vol 1 by : Christian Goodwillie
Download or read book Writings of Shaker Apostates and Anti-Shakers, 1782-1850 Vol 1 written by Christian Goodwillie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shakers are perhaps the best known of American religious communities. Their ethos and organization had a practical influence on many other communities and on society as a whole. This three volume collection presents writings from a broad cross-section of those who opposed the Shakers and their way of life.
