By The People For The People New England
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By The People For The People
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Author : DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
By The People For The People written by DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with categories.
By The People For The People
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
By The People For The People written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Art, American categories.
A Reforming People
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Author : David D. Hall
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2011-04-26
A Reforming People written by David D. Hall and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-26 with History categories.
A revelatory account of the aspirations and accomplishments of the people who founded the New England colonies, comparing the reforms they enacted with those attempted in England during the period of the English Revolution. Distinguished historian David D. Hall looks afresh at how the colonists set up churches, civil governments, and methods for distributing land. Bringing with them a deep fear of arbitrary, unlimited authority grounded in either church or state, these settlers based their churches on the participation of laypeople and insisted on “consent” as a premise of all civil governance. Encouraging broad participation and relying on the vigorous use of petitioning, they also transformed civil and criminal law and the workings of courts. The outcome was a civil society far less authoritarian and hierarchical than was customary in their age—indeed, a society so advanced that a few dared to describe it as “democratical.” They were well ahead of their time in doing so. As Puritans, the colonists also hoped to exemplify a social ethics of equity, peace, and the common good. In a case study of a single town, Hall follows a minister as he encourages the townspeople to live up to these high standards in their politics. This is a book that challenges us to discard long-standing stereotypes of the Puritans as temperamentally authoritarian and their leadership as despotic. Hall demonstrates exactly the opposite. Here, we watch the colonists as they insist on aligning institutions and social practice with equity and liberty. A stunning re-evaluation of the earliest moments of New England’s history, revealing the colonists to be the most effective and daring reformers of their day.
Early New England People
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Author : Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
Early New England People written by Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with Geneaology categories.
People Of The Wachusett
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Author : David Jaffee
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1999
People Of The Wachusett written by David Jaffee and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
"In People of the Wachusett the history of the New England town becomes the cultural history of America's first frontier. Integral to this history are the firsthand narratives of town founders and citizens - English, French, and Native American - whose accounts of trading and warring, relocating and putting down roots proved essential to the building of these communities.
The New England Town Meeting
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Author : Joseph F. Zimmerman
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1999-03-30
The New England Town Meeting written by Joseph F. Zimmerman and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-30 with Political Science categories.
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.
Native People Of Southern New England 1500 1650
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Author : Kathleen J. Bragdon
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1999-03-01
Native People Of Southern New England 1500 1650 written by Kathleen J. Bragdon and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-01 with History categories.
In this first comprehensive study of American Indians of southern New England from 1500 to 1650, Kathleen J. Bragdon discusses common features and significant differences among the Pawtucket, Massachusett, Nipmuck, Pocumtuck, Narragansett, Pokanoket, Niantic, Mohegan, and Pequot Indians. Her complex portrait, which employs both the perspective of European observers and important new evidence from archaeology and linguistics, shows that internally developed customs and values were primary determinants in the development of Native culture.
An Address To The People Of New England
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Author : Gideon] [Granger
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2016-05-24
An Address To The People Of New England written by Gideon] [Granger and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-24 with categories.
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New England Bound Slavery And Colonization In Early America
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Author : Wendy Warren
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2016-06-07
New England Bound Slavery And Colonization In Early America written by Wendy Warren and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-07 with History categories.
A New York Times Editor’s Choice "This book is an original achievement, the kind of history that chastens our historical memory as it makes us wiser." —David W. Blight Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Widely hailed as a “powerfully written” history about America’s beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America’s seventeenth-century origins. Building on the works of giants like Bernard Bailyn and Edmund S. Morgan, Wendy Warren has not only “mastered that scholarship” but has now rendered it in “an original way, and deepened the story” (New York Times Book Review). While earlier histories of slavery largely confine themselves to the South, Warren’s “panoptical exploration” (Christian Science Monitor) links the growth of the northern colonies to the slave trade and examines the complicity of New England’s leading families, demonstrating how the region’s economy derived its vitality from the slave trading ships coursing through its ports. And even while New England Bound explains the way in which the Atlantic slave trade drove the colonization of New England, it also brings to light, in many cases for the first time ever, the lives of the thousands of reluctant Indian and African slaves who found themselves forced into the project of building that city on a hill. We encounter enslaved Africans working side jobs as con artists, enslaved Indians who protested their banishment to sugar islands, enslaved Africans who set fire to their owners’ homes and goods, and enslaved Africans who saved their owners’ lives. In Warren’s meticulous, compelling, and hard-won recovery of such forgotten lives, the true variety of chattel slavery in the Americas comes to light, and New England Bound becomes the new standard for understanding colonial America.
New England Families Genealogical And Memorial
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Author : William Richard Cutter
language : en
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Release Date : 2003
New England Families Genealogical And Memorial written by William Richard Cutter and has been published by Genealogical Publishing Com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with New England categories.