Author: Bernard BailynPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674612808
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Based on thesis--Harvard University. Includes bibliographical references.
The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Bernard BailynPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674612808
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Based on thesis--Harvard University. Includes bibliographical references.
Harvard College in the Seventeenth century
Author: Samuel Eliot MorisonThe New England Mind
Author: Perry MILLERPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674041046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
In The New England Mind: From Colony to Province, as well as its predecessor The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, Perry Miller asserts a single intellectual history for America that could be traced to the Puritan belief system.
Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Samuel Eliot MorisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Founding of Harvard College
Author: Samuel Eliot MorisonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674314511
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samuel Eliot Morison traces the roots of American universities back to Europe, providing "a lively contemporary perspective...a realistic picture of the founding of the first American university north of the Rio Grande" [Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune].
Witchfinders
Author: Malcolm GaskillPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674025424
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
By spring 1645, two years of civil war had exacted a dreadful toll upon England. People lived in terror as disease and poverty spread, and the nation grew ever more politically divided. In a remote corner of Essex, two obscure gentlemen, Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne, exploited the anxiety and lawlessness of the time and initiated a brutal campaign to drive out the presumed evil in their midst. Touring Suffolk and East Anglia on horseback, they detected demons and idolators everywhere. Through torture, they extracted from terrified prisoners confessions of consorting with Satan and demonic spirits. Acclaimed historian Malcolm Gaskill retells the chilling story of the most savage witch-hunt in English history. By the autumn of 1647 at least 250 people--mostly women--had been captured, interrogated, and hauled before the courts. More than a hundred were hanged, causing Hopkins to be dubbed "Witchfinder General" by critics and admirers alike. Though their campaign was never legally sanctioned, they garnered the popular support of local gentry, clergy, and villagers. While Witchfinders tells of a unique and tragic historical moment fueled by religious fervor, today it serves as a reminder of the power of fear and fanaticism to fuel ordinary people's willingness to demonize others.
Women on the Margins
Author: Natalie Zemon DavisPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674955202
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Maria Sibylla Merian, a German painter and naturalist, produced an innovative work on tropical insects based on lore she gathered from the Carib, Arawak, and African women of Suriname.
The Dutch Garden in the Seventeenth Century
Author: John Dixon HuntPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884021872
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In 1988-89 the three hundredth anniversary of an important historical event, the ascension of William and Mary to the thrones of England and Scotland, was celebrated in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The symposium on Dutch garden art held at Dumbarton Oaks in May 1988 was the only scholarly event during the anniversary year that focused wholly upon gardens. This wide-ranging collection of essays charts the history, scope, and spread of Dutch garden art during the seventeenth century. A group of scholars, mostly Dutch, surveys what has been called the "golden age" of Dutch garden design. Essays discuss the political context of William's building and gardening activities at his palace of Het Loo in the Netherlands; the development of a distinctively Dutch garden art during the seventeenth century; country house poetry; and specific estates and their gardens, such as those of Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen at Cleves or Sorgvliet, the estate of Hans Willem Bentinck, later the Earl of Portland. Other contributions concern typical Dutch planting and layouts, with a focus upon Jan van der Green's much-circulated Den Nederlandtsen Hovenier; the designs of Daniel Marot, the Huguenot refugee from France, who worked for William III in both the Netherlands and England; and theattitudes of the English toward Dutch gardening as it was observed in practice and mythologized through the distorting lens of national cooperation and rivalries.
Glimpses of the Harvard Past
Author: Bernard BailynPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674354432
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Essays on Harvard's history provide sample glimpses of a part still significant in the twentieth century.
Author: Samuel Eliot Morison