Money-value Definitions of Economic Classes in Colonial Connecticut, 1700-1776
Author : Bruce Colin Daniels
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Page : 704 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 197?
Category : Connecticut
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Author : Bruce Colin Daniels
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Page : 704 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 197?
Category : Connecticut
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Author : Edward G. Gray
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300137818
During the course of his short but extraordinary life, John Ledyard (1751–1789) came in contact with some of the most remarkable figures of his era: the British explorer Captain James Cook, American financier Robert Morris, Revolutionary naval commander John Paul Jones, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and others. Ledyard lived and traveled in remarkable places as well, journeying from the New England backcountry to Tahiti, Hawaii, the American Northwest coast, Alaska, and the Russian Far East. In this engaging biography, the historian Edward Gray offers not only a full account of Ledyard’s eventful life but also an illuminating view of the late eighteenth-century world in which he lived. Ledyard was both a product of empire and an agent in its creation, Gray shows, and through this adventurer’s life it is possible to discern the many ways empire shaped the lives of nations, peoples, and individuals in the era of the American Revolution, the world’s first modern revolt against empire.
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Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 45,25 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Social history
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Author : Jack P. Greene
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,42 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0807842273
In this book, Jack Greene reinterprets the meaning of American social development. Synthesizing literature of the previous two decades on the process of social development and the formation of American culture, he challenges the central assumptions that h
Author : Toby L. Ditz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 12,97 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1400858291
Toby Ditz explores the relationship among inheritance, kinship, and the commercialization of agriculture. Comparing four upland communities with a Connecticut River Valley town, she finds that inheritance practices in the late colonial era heavily favored some male heirs and created shared rights in property. These customs continued into the early nineteenth century in the upland, but in the commercialized river-valley town practices became more egalitarian and individualized. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Cornelia Hughes Dayton
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807838241
Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women's participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions--including proceedings related to debt, divorce, illicit sex, rape, and slander. Weaving the stories of individual women together with systematic analysis of gendered litigation patterns, Cornelia Dayton argues that women's relation to the courtroom scene in early New England shifted from one of integration in the mid-seventeenth century to one of marginality by the eve of the Revolution. Using the court records of New Haven, which originally had the most Puritan-dominated legal regime of all the colonies, Dayton argues that Puritanism's insistence on godly behavior and communal modes of disputing initially created unusual opportunities for women's voices to be heard within the legal system. But women's presence in the courts declined significantly over time as Puritan beliefs lost their status as the organizing principles of society, as legal practice began to adhere more closely to English patriarchal models, as the economy became commercialized, and as middle-class families developed an ethic of privacy. By demonstrating that the early eighteenth century was a crucial locus of change in law, economy, and gender ideology, Dayton's findings argue for a reconceptualization of women's status in colonial New England and for a new periodization of women's history.
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Atlantic Coast (Canada)
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Author : Christopher Collier
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Connecticut
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A survey of published literature on Connecticut history with essays on, lists of, and annotations for works listed.
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Page : 658 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Connecticut
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Author : Committee for a New England Bibliography
Publisher : Hanover, NH : University Press of New England
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
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