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Author : Kenneth A. Lockridge
Publisher : New York : Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393053814
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (538 download)
Download or read book A New England Town written by Kenneth A. Lockridge and published by New York : Norton. This book was released on 1970 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sumner Chilton Powell
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819572683
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Puritan Village written by Sumner Chilton Powell and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize Winner: “A meticulous and remarkably detailed account of the early government and social organization of the town of Sudbury, Massachusetts.” —Time In addition to drawing on local records from Sudbury, Massachusetts, the author of this classic work, which won the Pulitzer Prize in History, traced the town’s early families back to England to create an outstanding portrait of a colonial settlement in the seventeenth century. He looks at the various individuals who formed this new society; how institutions and government took shape; what changed—or didn’t—in the movement from the Old World to the New; and how those from different local cultures adjusted, adapted, competed, and cooperated to plant the seeds of what would become, in the century to follow, a commonwealth of the United States of America. “An important and interesting book . . . to the student of institutions, even to the sociologist, as well as to the historian.” —The New England Quarterly
Author : Frank M. Bryan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226077985
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Real Democracy written by Frank M. Bryan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relying on an astounding collection of more than three decades of firsthand research, Frank M. Bryan examines one of the purest forms of American democracy, the New England town meeting. At these meetings, usually held once a year, all eligible citizens of the town may become legislators; they meet in face-to-face assemblies, debate the issues on the agenda, and vote on them. And although these meetings are natural laboratories for democracy, very few scholars have systematically investigated them. A nationally recognized expert on this topic, Bryan has now done just that. Studying 1,500 town meetings in his home state of Vermont, he and his students recorded a staggering amount of data about them—238,603 acts of participation by 63,140 citizens in 210 different towns. Drawing on this evidence as well as on evocative "witness" accounts—from casual observers to no lesser a light than Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn—Bryan paints a vivid picture of how real democracy works. Among the many fascinating questions he explores: why attendance varies sharply with town size, how citizens resolve conflicts in open forums, and how men and women behave differently in town meetings. In the end, Bryan interprets this brand of local government to find evidence for its considerable staying power as the most authentic and meaningful form of direct democracy. Giving us a rare glimpse into how democracy works in the real world, Bryan presents here an unorthodox and definitive book on this most cherished of American institutions.
Author : Anne Bush MacLear
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Early New England Towns : a Comparative Study of Their Development written by Anne Bush MacLear and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert Baxter Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Germanic Origin of New England Towns written by Herbert Baxter Adams and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barry Levy
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812241778
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (417 download)
Download or read book Town Born written by Barry Levy and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : R. H. Howard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of New England written by R. H. Howard and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph F. Zimmerman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313003637
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The New England Town Meeting written by Joseph F. Zimmerman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-03-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking study, Zimmerman explores the town meeting form of government in all New England states. This comprehensive work relies heavily upon surveys of town officers and citizens, interviews, and mastery of the scattered writing on the subject. Zimmerman finds that the stereotypes of the New England open town meeting advanced by its critics are a serious distortion of reality. He shows that voter superintendence of town affairs has proven to be effective, and there is no empirical evidence that thousands of small towns and cities with elected councils are governed better. Whereas the relatively small voter attendance suggests that interest groups can control town meetings, their influence has been offset effectively by the development of town advisory committees, particularly the finance committee and the planning board, which are effective counterbalances to pressure groups. Zimmerman provides a new conception of town meeting democracy, positing that the meeting is a de facto representative legislative body with two safety valves—open access to all voters and the initiative to add articles to the warrant, and the calling of special meetings to reconsider decisions made at the preceding town meeting. And, as Zimmerman points out, a third safety valve—the protest referendum—can be adopted by a town meeting.
Author : Lyman P. Powell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Historic Towns of New England written by Lyman P. Powell and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Bush Maclear
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781017521191
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Early New England Towns: A Comparative Study of Their Development written by Anne Bush Maclear and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Anne Bush MacLear
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Early New England Towns; a Comparative Study of Their Development written by Anne Bush MacLear and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Towns of New England and Old England, Ireland and Scotland ... Connecting Links Between Cities and Towns in New England and Those of the Same Name in England, Ireland and Scotland written by State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Towns of New England and Old England, Ireland and Scotland ... Connecting Links Between Cities and Towns of New England and Those of the Same Name in England, Ireland and Scotland written by State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Rodolphus Lambert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book History of the Colony of New Haven written by Edward Rodolphus Lambert and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alice Morse Earle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Customs and Fashions in Old New England written by Alice Morse Earle and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Bush Maclear
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9780526859504
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (595 download)
Download or read book Early New England Towns written by Anne Bush Maclear and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Anne Bush Maclear
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265271476
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (714 download)
Download or read book Early New England Towns written by Anne Bush Maclear and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Early New England Towns: A Comparative Study of Their Development The purpose of this work is to give in some detail an account of the institutional life of a Massachusetts town of the seventeenth century by means of a comparison of the institutions of five of the earliest of these towns, - Sa1em, Dorchester, Watertown, Roxbury and Cambridge. To accomplish this, it was found necessary to omit many of the more picturesque features connected With the settlement and early years of these towns and to confine this investiga tion-to the institutions and to their development during the century. This was the more easily done since the former phase of town history has been so well treated already that it seems impossible to improve upon the accounts we now have. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
