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Puritan Village

Author : Sumner Chilton Powell
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819572683
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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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

A New England Town

Author : Kenneth A. Lockridge
Publisher : New York : Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393053814
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (538 download)

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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:

The New England Village

Author : Joseph S. Wood
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801866135
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book The New England Village written by Joseph S. Wood and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-09-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New England colonists, Wood argues, brought with them a cultural predisposition toward dispersed settlements within agricultural spaces called "towns" and "villages." Rarely compact in form, these communities did, however, encourage individual landholding. By the early nineteenth century, town centers, where meetinghouses stood, began to develop into the center villages we recognize today. Just as rural New England began its economic decline, Wood shows, romantics associated these proto-urban places with idealized colonial village communities as the source of both village form and commercial success.

Village Atheists

Author : Leigh Eric Schmidt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691183112
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Village Atheists written by Leigh Eric Schmidt and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling history of atheism in American public life A much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation’s moral fabric, barred from holding public office, and branded as irreligious misfits in a nation chosen by God. Yet village atheists—as these godless freethinkers came to be known by the close of the nineteenth century—were also hailed for their gutsy dissent from stultifying pieties and for posing a necessary secularist challenge to the entanglements of church and state. In Village Atheists, Leigh Eric Schmidt explores the complex cultural terrain that unbelievers have long had to navigate in their fight to secure equal rights and liberties in American public life. He rebuilds the history of American secularism from the ground up, giving flesh and blood to these outspoken infidels. Village Atheists demonstrates that the secularist vision for the United States proved to be anything but triumphant in a country where faith and citizenship were—and still are—closely interwoven.

Puritan Girl, Mohawk Girl

Author : John Demos
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683351509
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Puritan Girl, Mohawk Girl written by John Demos and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting historical fiction narrative, National Book Award Finalist John Demos shares the story of a young Puritan girl and her life-changing experience with the Mohawk people. Inspired by Demos’s award-winning novel The Unredeemed Captive, Puritan Girl, Mohawk Girl will captivate a young audience, providing a Native American perspective rather than the Western one typically taught in the classroom. As the armed conflicts between the English colonies in North America and the French settlements raged in the 1700s, a young Puritan girl, Eunice Williams, is kidnapped by Mohawk people and taken to Canada. She is adopted into a new family, a new culture, and a new set of traditions that will define her life. As Eunice spends her days learning the Mohawk language and the roles of women and girls in the community, she gains a deeper understanding of her Mohawk family. Although her father and brother try to persuade Eunice to return to Massachusetts, she ultimately chooses to remain with her Mohawk family and settlement. Puritan Girl, Mohawk Girl offers a compelling and rich lesson that is sure to enchant young readers and those who want to deepen their understanding of Native American history.

Landscapes of the Sacred

Author : Belden C. Lane
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801868382
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of the Sacred written by Belden C. Lane and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This substantially expanded edition of Belden C. Lane's Landscapes of the Sacred includes a new introductory chapter that offers three new interpretive models for understanding American sacred space. Lane maintains his approach of interspersing shorter and more personal pieces among full-length essays that explore how Native American, early French and Spanish, Puritan New England, and Catholic Worker traditions has each expressed the connection between spirituality and place. A new section at the end of the book includes three chapters that address methodological issues in the study of spirituality, the symbol-making process of religious experience, and the tension between place and placelessness in Christian spirituality.

The Young Puritans in Captivity

Author : Mary Prudence Wells Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Young Puritans in Captivity written by Mary Prudence Wells Smith and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New England Town Meeting

Author : Joseph F. Zimmerman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313003637
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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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.

New England Nation

Author : B. Daniels
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137025638
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book New England Nation written by B. Daniels and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of European revolutions and social upheaval, an extraordinary society of literate, pious, and prosperous English Puritans flowered in seventeenth-century New England. This wonderfully readable history recreates the world of Puritan New England and places it in the broad sweep of history. The book provides a fascinating look into Puritan society, with sailors, sinners, women, children, and Native Americans joining the usual Puritan ministers of the seventeenth century. Combining remarkable primary sources with an enjoyable narrative, this book reveals the New England Nation in its fullness and complexity, and reveals striking parallels with the America of today.

Witch Hunt

Author : Stephen Krensky
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780394819235
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Witch Hunt written by Stephen Krensky and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Salem Witch Hunt which took place in Massachusetts in 1692.

History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647

Author : William Bradford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647 written by William Bradford and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Events That Changed America Through the Seventeenth Century

Author : John E. Findling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313007217
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Events That Changed America Through the Seventeenth Century written by John E. Findling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the settlement of the earliest peoples in the Americas to the close of the seventeenth century, enormous changes took place in what was to become the continental United States. To help students understand this sweep of history, this unique resource provides detailed description and expert analysis of the ten most important events through the seventeenth century: First Encounters, c. 40,000 BCE - 1492 AD; The Expedition of Coronado, 1540-1542; The Founding of St. Augustine, 1565; Early English Colonization Efforts, c. 1584-1630; Early European-Native American Encounters, 1607-1637; The Introduction of Slavery into America, 1619; The Surrender of New Amsterdam, 1664; King Philip's War, 1675-1676; The Glorious Revolution in America, 1688-1689; and The Salem Witch Trials, 1692. Each event is dealt with in a separate chapter. The examination goes beyond traditional textbook treatment of history by considering the immediate and far-reaching ramifications of each event. Each chapter features an introductory essay that presents the facts of the event in a clear, chronological manner that makes complex history understandable. This essay is followed by an interpretive essay, written by a recognized authority in the field in a style designed to appeal to a general readership and promote critical thinking, that places the event in a broader context and assesses it in terms of its political, economic, sociocultural, and international significance. With an illustration and an annotated bibliography for each event, a glossary of names, events, and terms of the period, a timeline of important events in American history through the seventeenth century, Events That Changed America Through the Seventeenth Century is an ideal addition to the high school, community college, and undergraduate reference shelf, as well as excellent supplementary reading in social studies and American history courses.

The Making of America's Culture Regions

Author : Richard L. Nostrand
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538103974
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Making of America's Culture Regions written by Richard L. Nostrand and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This outstanding text provides students with the essential foundation in the historical geography of the United States. Distinguished scholar Richard L. Nostrand skillfully synthesizes decades of historical geography research in an engaging and thought-provoking overview. His regional geography framework emphasizes the three themes central to cultural geography—cultural ecology, cultural diffusion, and cultural landscape—to explain the formation and change of culture regions in the United States. He shows convincingly that regions are a valuable pedagogical device for developing students’ understanding of place and context.

Publications

Author : Illinois State Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Publications written by Illinois State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Town Born

Author : Barry Levy
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812202619
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Town Born written by Barry Levy and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 361 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.

The Puritan Ideology of Mobility

Author : Scott McDermott
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1785274732
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book The Puritan Ideology of Mobility written by Scott McDermott and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 examines the ideology that English Puritans developed to justify migration: their migration from England to New England, migrations from one town to another within New England, and, often, their repatriation to the mother country. Puritan leaders believed firmly that nations, colonies, and towns were all “bodies politic,” that is, living and organic social bodies. However, if a social body became distempered because of scarce resources or political or religious discord, it became necessary to create a new social body from the old in order to restore balance and harmony. The new social body was articulated through the social ritual of land distribution according to Aristotelian “distributive justice.” The book will trace this process at work in the founding of Ipswich and its satellite town in Massachusetts.

First Americans: A History of Native Peoples

Author : Kenneth W. Townsend
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000895564
Total Pages : 1023 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book First Americans: A History of Native Peoples written by Kenneth W. Townsend and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 1023 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its third edition, First Americans has been fully updated to trace Native Americans' experiences through the 2020 election and the Biden administration, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the crisis of murdered and missing indigenous women. This book provides a comprehensive history of Native Americans from their earliest appearances in North America to the present, highlighting the complexity and diversity of their cultures and experiences. Contrasting the misconception that Native Americans were consistently victims without power, native voices permeate the text and shape its narrative, underlining the vitality of native peoples and cultures in the context of regional, continental, and global developments. The new edition highlights the role of Native Americans as agents of resistance and progress, rooted in the perspective that their activism has been instrumental throughout history and in the present day. To enrich student understanding, the book also includes a variety of pedagogical tools including short biographical profiles, key review questions, a rich series of maps and illustrations, chapter chronologies, a glossary, and recommendations for further reading. Spanning centuries of developments into the present day, First Americans is the approachable, essential student introduction to Native American history.