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Town Born
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Author : Barry Levy
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2011-07-06
Town Born written by Barry Levy and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-06 with History categories.
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.
Town Born
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Author : Barry Levy
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2009
Town Born written by Barry Levy and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
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 Vermont Historical Gazetteer Franklin Grand Isle Lamoille And Orange Counties Including Also The Natural History Of Chittenden County And Index To Volume 1
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
The Vermont Historical Gazetteer Franklin Grand Isle Lamoille And Orange Counties Including Also The Natural History Of Chittenden County And Index To Volume 1 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with Vermont categories.
History Of Duchess County New York
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Author : James Hadden Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
History Of Duchess County New York written by James Hadden Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with Dutchess County (N.Y.) categories.
Municipal Government And Land Tenure
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
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The History Of Waukesha County Wisconsin Containing An Account Of Its Settlement Growth Development And Resources
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
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The History Of Marshall County Iowa
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Author : Brookhaven Press
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
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A History Of New England
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Author : R. H. Howard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879
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The Transcript Of The Register Of Baptisms Muthill Perthshire
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Author : St. James' Episcopal Church (Muthill, Scotland)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
The Transcript Of The Register Of Baptisms Muthill Perthshire written by St. James' Episcopal Church (Muthill, Scotland) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Baptismal records categories.
History Of Crawford County Pennsylvania
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
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