Creating New England Villages

Author : Joseph S. Wood
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801866135
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( 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.

Author : Evan J. Kern
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811727839
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating New England Villages written by Evan J. Kern and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create charming and historically accurate miniature buildings from New England's past. Easy instructions explain every step in the process--from cutting and gluing to coloring and finishing. Projects include a sugarhouse, covered bridge, Cape Cod house, church, lighthouse, gristmill, and more. 36 color photos, 38 drawings.

Author : Sumner Chilton Powell
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819572683
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( 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

Author : Lyman P. Powell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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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:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.7Q/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western New England Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Thomas Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.WB/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New England States written by William Thomas Davis and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Andrew Munsey
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under Fire: A Tale of New England Village Life written by Frank Andrew Munsey and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Under Fire: A Tale of New England Village Life' is a novel written by Frank Andrew Munsey. The story, set in a small New England village, begins with two boys, Tom Martin and Dave Farrington, discussing a baseball game they played the previous day. Both boys admitted that without the help of Fred Worthington, there's no way that their team would've won the game.

Author : Dona Brown
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1560987995
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing New England written by Dona Brown and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 1997-11-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quaint, charming, nostalgic New England: rustic fishing villages, romantic seaside cottages, breathtaking mountain vistas, peaceful rural settings. In Inventing New England, Dona Brown traces the creation of these calendar-page images and describes how tourism as a business emerged and came to shape the landscape, economy, and culture of a region. By the latter nineteenth century, Brown argues, tourism had become an integral part of New England's rural economy, and the short vacation a fixture of middle-class life. Focusing on such meccas as the White Mountains, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, coastal Maine, and Vermont, Brown describes how failed port cities, abandoned farms, and even scenery were churned through powerful marketing engines promoting nostalgia. She also examines the irony of an industry that was based on an escape from commerce but served as an engine of industrial development, spawning hotel construction, land speculation, the spread of wage labor, and a vast market for guidebooks and other publications.

Author : John William Reps
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691006180
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of Urban America written by John William Reps and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive survey of urban growth in America has become a standard work in the field. From the early colonial period to the First World War, John Reps explores to what extent city planning has been rooted in the nation's tradition, showing the extent of European influence on early communities. Illustrated by over three hundred reproductions of maps, plans, and panoramic views, this book presents hundreds of American cities and the unique factors affecting their development.

Author : Bruce Irving
Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 1581578482
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New England Icons: Shaker Villages, Saltboxes, Stone Walls and Steeples written by Bruce Irving and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connect with the original New England. We tend to think of icons as simple, graphic, stone or wooden objects without much depth or life, left overs from bygone eras. But Bruce Irving, former producer of the popular PBS show This Old House, will have none of that. In a collection of short essays, Irving taps into our collective consciousness by extolling the comforting sense of place we associate with such common and not-so-common New England sights as stone walls, village greens, lobster boats, classic ski runs, and garden cemeteries, to name but a few—symbols of enduring importance that are also still full of life and character. Curl up in your favorite chair, relax, and take a tour of our common heritage—or take this insightful cultural guide with you as you travel New England’s highways and byways. It’s sure to shed new light on the old stalwart landscape features you see every day.