Winthrop's Journal, "History of New England," 1630-1649
Author : John Winthrop
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,77 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Massachusetts
ISBN :
Author : John Winthrop
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,77 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Massachusetts
ISBN :
Author : William Hubbard
Publisher :
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 18,36 MB
Release : 1815
Category : Massachusetts
ISBN :
Author : Richard William Judd
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,10 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : 9781625341013
8. Conserving Urban Ecologies -- 9. Saving Second Nature -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover
Author : Blake A. Harrison
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780262525275
This book takes a view of New England's landscapes that goes beyond picture postcard-ready vistas of white-steepled churches, open pastures, and tree-covered mountains. Its chapters describe, for example, the Native American presence in the Maine Woods; offer a history of agriculture told through stone walls, woodlands, and farm buildings; report on the fragile ecology of tourist-friendly Cape Cod beaches; and reveal the ethnic stereotypes informing Colonial Revivalism. Taken together, they offer a wide-ranging history of New England's diverse landscapes, stretching across two centuries. The book shows that all New England landscapes are the products of human agency as well as nature. The authors trace the roles that work, recreation, historic preservation, conservation, and environmentalism have played in shaping the region, and they highlight the diversity of historical actors who have transformed both its meaning and its physical form. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, environmental studies, literature, art history, and historic preservation, the book provides fresh perspectives on New England's many landscapes: forests, mountains, farms, coasts, industrial areas, villages, towns, and cities. Illustrated, and with many archival photographs, it offers readers a solid historical foundation for understanding the great variety of places that make up New England.
Author : Robert Thorson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0802719201
There once may have been 250,000 miles of stone walls in America's Northeast, stretching farther than the distance to the moon. They took three billion man-hours to build. And even though most are crumbling today, they contain a magnificent scientific and cultural story-about the geothermal forces that formed their stones, the tectonic movements that brought them to the surface, the glacial tide that broke them apart, the earth that held them for so long, and about the humans who built them. Stone walls layer time like Russian dolls, their smallest elements reflecting the longest spans, and Thorson urges us to study them, for each stone has its own story. Linking geological history to the early American experience, Stone by Stone presents a fascinating picture of the land the Pilgrims settled, allowing us to see and understand it with new eyes.
Author : Wendy Warren
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 11,45 MB
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1631492152
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History A New York Times Notable Book A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A Providence Journal Best Book of the Year Winner of the Organization of American Historians Merle Curti Award for Social History Finalist for the Harriet Tubman Prize Finalist for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize "This book is an original achievement, the kind of history that chastens our historical memory as it makes us wiser." —David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Widely hailed as a “powerfully written” history about America’s beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America’s seventeenth-century origins. Building on the works of giants like Bernard Bailyn and Edmund S. Morgan, Wendy Warren has not only “mastered that scholarship” but has now rendered it in “an original way, and deepened the story” (New York Times Book Review). While earlier histories of slavery largely confine themselves to the South, Warren’s “panoptical exploration” (Christian Science Monitor) links the growth of the northern colonies to the slave trade and examines the complicity of New England’s leading families, demonstrating how the region’s economy derived its vitality from the slave trading ships coursing through its ports. And even while New England Bound explains the way in which the Atlantic slave trade drove the colonization of New England, it also brings to light, in many cases for the first time ever, the lives of the thousands of reluctant Indian and African slaves who found themselves forced into the project of building that city on a hill. We encounter enslaved Africans working side jobs as con artists, enslaved Indians who protested their banishment to sugar islands, enslaved Africans who set fire to their owners’ homes and goods, and enslaved Africans who saved their owners’ lives. In Warren’s meticulous, compelling, and hard-won recovery of such forgotten lives, the true variety of chattel slavery in the Americas comes to light, and New England Bound becomes the new standard for understanding colonial America.
Author : William Scranton Simmons
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780874513721
Legends, folktales, and traditions of New England Indians reflect historical events and a changing Indian identity over a 365-year period
Author : John Winthrop
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674484269
This abridged edition of Winthrop's journal, which incorporates about 40 percent of the governor's text, with his spelling and punctuation modernized, includes a lively Introduction and complete annotation. It also includes Winthrop's famous lay sermon, "A Model of Christian Charity", written in 1630. As in the fuller journal, this abridged edition contains the drama of Winthrop's life - his defeat at the hands of the freemen for governor, the banishment and flight of Roger Williams to Rhode Island, the Pequot War that exterminated his Indian opponents, and the Antinomian controversy. Here is the earliest American document on the perpetual contest between the forces of good and evil in the wilderness - Winthrop's recounting of how God's Chosen People escaped from captivity into the promised land. While he recorded all the sexual scandal - rape, fornication, adultery, sodomy, and buggery - it was only to show that even in Godly New England the Devil was continually at work, and man must be forever militant.
Author : Kenneth A. Lockridge
Publisher : New York : Norton
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 27,19 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Dedham (Mass.)
ISBN : 9780393053814
Author : G. R. Searle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 991 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0199284407
G.R. Searle's narrative history breaks conventional chronological barriers to carry the reader from England in 1886, the apogee of the Victorian era with the nation poised to celebrate the empress queen's golden jubilee, to 1918, as the 'war to end all wars' drew to a close.