A Crisis of Community : The Trials and Transformation of a New England Town, 1815-1848 /

"Mary White, a shopkeeper's wife from rural Boylston, Massachusetts, kept a diary, and woven into its quotidian details of small-town farm life is a remarkable tale of conflict and transformation. Sustained by its Puritan heritage, gentry leadership, and creed of common good, Boylston had...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Fuhrer, Mary Babson
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
White, Mary Avery, > 1778-1860.
White family.
Social conditions.
Social change.
Community life.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > 19th century.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Social change > Massachusetts > Boylston.
Community life > Massachusetts > Boylston.
Massachusetts > Boylston.
Boylston (Mass.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Boylston (Mass.) > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The wilderness world
  • A church disassembled
  • Economic choice and consequences
  • Fields and dreams
  • Useful knowledge
  • Re-forming community
  • Political principles, partisan passions
  • The bonds of anti-slavery
  • Reaping.

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