Cultivating a past : essays on the history of Hadley, Massachusetts /
In 1659, a group of Puritan dissenters made their way north from Hartford and Wethersfield, Connecticut, to a crook in the Connecticut River that cut through some of the most fertile land in New England. Three hundred and fifty years later, a group of distinguished scholars mark the founding of that...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2009]
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Colección: | JSTOR EBA.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Pastkeeping in Another Small Place / Marla R. Miller
- 1. Quanquan's Mortgage of 1663 / Alice Nash
- 2. Before Hadley: Archaeology and Native History, 10,000 Be to 1700 AD / Siobhan M. Hart, Elizabeth S. Chilton and Christopher Donta
- 3. The Fortification of Hadley in the Seventeenth Century / J. Edward Hood and Rita Reinke
- 4. Web ofSecrecy: Goffe, Whalley, and the Legend of Hadley / Douglas C. Wilson
- 5. The "Goffe Bible": Succor for the Regicides? / Martin Antonetti
- 6. "There shall be a wonder in Hadley!": Mary Webster's "Hideous Witchcraft" / Bridget M. Marshall and Brian W. Ogilvie
- 7. Hannah Barnard's Cupboard: Female Property and Identity in Eighteenth-Century New England / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- 8. The Sober People of Hadley: Sumptuary Legislation and Clothing in Hadley Men's Probate Inventories, 1663-1731 / Lynne Z. Bassett
- 9. "We owe something more than prayers": Elizabeth Porter Phelps's Gift of Church Silver and Her Quest for Christian Fellowship / Karen Parsons
- 10. Commerce and Community: A Case Study of the Rural Broommaking Business in Antebellum Massachusetts / Gregory H. Nobles
- 11. In Defense of Fighting Joe / Stephen W. Sears
- 12. Poles and Puritans / Peter Hardin
- 13. America's Blind Naturalist: Clarence Hawkes and the World He Lived In / James A. Freeman
- 14. "Like one of the trees": Roger Sessions and Hadley / Andrea Olmstead
- 15. Preserving Mt. Holyoke / Ethan Carr.