The brittle thread of life : backcountry people make a place for themselves in early America /

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The colonists who settled the backcountry in eighteenth-century New England were recruited from the social fringe, people who were desperate for land, autonomy, and respectability and who were willing to make a hard living in a rugged environment. Mark Williams' microhistorical approach gives v...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Mark, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Land settlement > Connecticut > Granby (Town) > History.
Social classes > Connecticut > Granby (Town) > History.
Rural poor > Connecticut > Granby (Town) > Social conditions.
Country life > Connecticut > Granby (Town)
Land settlement > Massachusetts > Ashfield (Town) > History.
Social classes > Massachusetts > Ashfield (Town) > History.
Rural poor > Massachusetts > Ashfield (Town) > Social conditions.
Country life > Massachusetts > Ashfield (Town)
Country life
Land settlement
Rural poor > Social conditions
Social classes
Granby (Conn. : Town) > History.
Ashfield (Mass. : Town) > History.
Connecticut > Granby (Town)
Massachusetts > Ashfield (Town)
Neuengland
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : nothing for history to say?
  • A place called Sammon Brooke
  • On penalty of loosing our freeholds
  • Zeal for the support of the darling liberty
  • In our corporate capacity
  • Settled our land according to your command
  • We ought to obey God rather than man
  • We do not want any goviner but the goviner of the univarse
  • As they shall judge necessary
  • Epilogue : a hazardous state and condition.

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