A New England Town
Author : Kenneth A. Lockridge
Publisher : New York : Norton
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 12,79 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Dedham (Mass.)
ISBN : 9780393053814
Author : Kenneth A. Lockridge
Publisher : New York : Norton
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 12,79 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Dedham (Mass.)
ISBN : 9780393053814
Author : Sumner Chilton Powell
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 38,37 MB
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0819572683
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 : Virginia Lund-Wilkins
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 2022-02-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 1665551410
How would you like to take a stroll with me, a stroll down memory lane? Travel down a dirt road in a small New England town of about 800-900 people in a time when America was struggling out of depression.
Author : Eugene Batchelder
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 1851
Category : New Ipswich (N.H.)
ISBN :
Author : Joseph F. Zimmerman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 1999-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0313003637
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.
Author : Sally Senzell Isaacs
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 2002-06-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781403405258
An overview of life in a nineteenth-century town in which most people worked in the textile mill, including their housing, food, clothing, schools, and everyday activities.
Author : Lyman Pierson Powell
Publisher :
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 1898
Category : New England
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 1912
Category : New England
ISBN :
Author : R. H. Howard
Publisher :
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 36,76 MB
Release : 1879
Category : New England
ISBN :
Author : James B. Bell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 3319556304
This book considers three defining movements driven from London and within the region that describe the experience of the Church of England in New England between 1686 and 1786. It explores the radical imperial political and religious change that occurred in Puritan New England following the late seventeenth-century introduction of a new charter for the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Anglican Church in Boston and the public declaration of several Yale ‘apostates’ at the 1722 college commencement exercises. These events transformed the religious circumstances of New England and fuelled new attention and interest in London for the national church in early America. The political leadership, controversial ideas and forces in London and Boston during the run-up to and in the course of the War for Independence, was witnessed by and affected the Church of England in New England. The book appeals to students and researchers of English History, British Imperial History, Early American History and Religious History.