The Massachusetts Townsman
Author : Benjamin Kingsbury (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,89 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Local government
ISBN :
Author : Benjamin Kingsbury (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,89 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Local government
ISBN :
Author : Benjamin Kingsbury
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 1856
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Author : [Anonymus AC09764865]
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 1865
Category :
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Author : Austin De Wolf
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 23,64 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Local government
ISBN :
Author : Douglas I. Hodgkin
Publisher : Just Write Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 34,48 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Lewiston (Me.)
ISBN : 1934949108
Its history, location, people and industry--all serve as an example of small riverside settlements that grew into industrial cities over the course of a century early in our country's history. From schools, to factories, to founding families, to all the minutiae that create a town--it provides a clear picture of the many facets of Lewiston during its transformation.
Author : Boston University. Bureau of Public Administration
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Local government
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Author : Henry Walcott Farnam
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social legislation
ISBN : 1584770546
A social history of the class system in the United States from the colonial period through the constitutional era that primarily concerns itself with the issue of slavery. Other legislative areas affected by the social structure of the times covered include laws of debt, land tenure, fair trade, and food supply...Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection of New York University (1953) 809.
Author : James Smith Garland
Publisher :
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Local government
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,11 MB
Release : 1993
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Phyllis Whitman Hunter
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 22,32 MB
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1501725734
Americans have always had a love-hate relationship with possessions. Early Americans suspected luxuries as a corrupting force that would lead to an aristocracy. In Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World, Phyllis Whitman Hunter demonstrates how elite Americans not only became infatuated with their belongings, but also avidly pursued consumption to shape their world and proclaim their success. In eighteenth-century New England harbor towns, the commercial gentry led their communities into full participation in a flourishing Anglo-American consumer culture. Affluent traders constructed roads, wharves, and warehouses, built mansions and assembly buildings, adopted new forms of sociability, and fostered the rise of the public sphere. Using case studies of influential merchant families, Hunter brings alive the process by which Boston and Salem evolved from Puritan towns dominated by families of English origin to Georgian provincial cities open to a diversity of religious affiliations and European ethnicities. Hunter then explores how revolutionary politics overturned polite society and transformed the meanings of possessions. Patriots threw tea to the fish in Boston Harbor, donned homespun at Harvard commencements, and transformed a silver punch bowl into an icon of liberty. The wealthy either espoused republican values and muted their material displays or fled to exile. Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World,reveals a critical link in the complex relationship between capitalism and culture: the process by which material goods become symbols of profound social and cultural significance.