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Book Synopsis Puritan Village by : Sumner Chilton Powell
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
Book Synopsis A New England Town by : Kenneth A. Lockridge
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:
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.
Book Synopsis The Story of an Old New England Town by : Vinal A. Houghton
Download or read book The Story of an Old New England Town written by Vinal A. Houghton and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of a New England Town by : Haverhill (Mass.)
Download or read book The Story of a New England Town written by Haverhill (Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of an Old New England Town by : V. A. Houghton
Download or read book The Story of an Old New England Town written by V. A. Houghton and published by . This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Westport, Connecticut by : Woody Klein
Download or read book Westport, Connecticut written by Woody Klein and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2000 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-documented journey into the past illuminates the special character and sense of place that is Westport, Connecticut. It offers the reader a keen insight into the unusual tapestry of life in this town, woven by a combination of colonial farmers, immigrants who built Westport, and celebrities from the arts, the professions, politics, and corporate America who have made this widely acclaimed town their home."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Old New England Traits by : George Lunt
Download or read book Old New England Traits written by George Lunt and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historic Towns of New England by : Lyman Pierson Powell
Download or read book Historic Towns of New England written by Lyman Pierson Powell and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The New England Town in Fact and Fiction by : Perry D. Westbrook
Download or read book The New England Town in Fact and Fiction written by Perry D. Westbrook and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines the institution and mystique of the New England town as it has impinged upon and molded the American imagination for two hundred years through the works of such writers as Thoreau, Dickinson, Cheever, and Updike.
Book Synopsis Historic Towns of New England (Classic Reprint) by : Lyman P. Powell
Download or read book Historic Towns of New England (Classic Reprint) written by Lyman P. Powell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historic Towns of New England If one will walk about New England towns one will find in each a church, a town-house, and a school, and in most of them a railroad station and a factory. In the majority of them there will also be a public library, small perhaps and usually housed in the town-house, but open to all, and supported from the public funds. In the larger towns, especially in those where manufacturing is a prominent factor in the communal prosperity, a hospital, supported by public taxation, is open to all. In almost every town there is a grass-covered, tree-shaded common, which serves as a village or town park, and on it usually stand memorial tablets or statues testifying to the valor of the dead who went forth to fight in the War of the Revolution or in the Civil War. 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.
Book Synopsis Historic Towns of New England by : Various
Download or read book Historic Towns of New England written by Various and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of an Old New England Town by : Frances Boott Greenough
Download or read book The Story of an Old New England Town written by Frances Boott Greenough and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of a New England Town; a Record of the Commemoration, July Second and Third, 1890 on the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Haverhill, Massachusetts by : Haverhill (Mass )
Download or read book The Story of a New England Town; a Record of the Commemoration, July Second and Third, 1890 on the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Haverhill, Massachusetts written by Haverhill (Mass ) and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 892 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. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Stories of Old New England by : Stephen Morrell Griswold
Download or read book Stories of Old New England written by Stephen Morrell Griswold and published by . This book was released on 190? with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Story of a New England Town by : Henry Harrison Sprague
Download or read book A Story of a New England Town written by Henry Harrison Sprague and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The New England Town Meeting by : Joseph F. Zimmerman
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.
