Author: New Haven (Conn.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
New Haven Town Records, 1649-1769
Author: New Haven (Conn.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
New Haven Town Records, 1649-1769: 1662-1684
Author: New Haven (Conn.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Haven (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Haven (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
... New Haven Town Records, 1649-
Author: New Haven (Conn.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Haven (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Contents: v.1 1649-1662, v.2 1662-1684, v.3 1684-1769.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Haven (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Contents: v.1 1649-1662, v.2 1662-1684, v.3 1684-1769.
Ancient Town Records: New Haven town records, 1684-1769
New Haven Town Records, 1649-1684
Author: New Haven (Conn.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Haven (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Haven (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Ancient Town Records: New Haven. New Haven town records, 1649- ed. by F.B. Dexter
Town Born
Author: Barry Levy
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812202619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, British colonists found the New World full of resources. With land readily available but workers in short supply, settlers developed coercive forms of labor—indentured servitude and chattel slavery—in order to produce staple export crops like rice, wheat, and tobacco. This brutal labor regime became common throughout most of the colonies. An important exception was New England, where settlers and their descendants did most work themselves. In Town Born, Barry Levy shows that New England's distinctive and far more egalitarian order was due neither to the colonists' peasant traditionalism nor to the region's inhospitable environment. Instead, New England's labor system and relative equality were every bit a consequence of its innovative system of governance, which placed nearly all land under the control of several hundred self-governing town meetings. As Levy shows, these town meetings were not simply sites of empty democratic rituals but were used to organize, force, and reconcile laborers, families, and entrepreneurs into profitable export economies. The town meetings protected the value of local labor by persistently excluding outsiders and privileging the town born. The town-centered political economy of New England created a large region in which labor earned respect, relative equity ruled, workers exercised political power despite doing the most arduous tasks, and the burdens of work were absorbed by citizens themselves. In a closely observed and well-researched narrative, Town Born reveals how this social order helped create the foundation for American society.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812202619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, British colonists found the New World full of resources. With land readily available but workers in short supply, settlers developed coercive forms of labor—indentured servitude and chattel slavery—in order to produce staple export crops like rice, wheat, and tobacco. This brutal labor regime became common throughout most of the colonies. An important exception was New England, where settlers and their descendants did most work themselves. In Town Born, Barry Levy shows that New England's distinctive and far more egalitarian order was due neither to the colonists' peasant traditionalism nor to the region's inhospitable environment. Instead, New England's labor system and relative equality were every bit a consequence of its innovative system of governance, which placed nearly all land under the control of several hundred self-governing town meetings. As Levy shows, these town meetings were not simply sites of empty democratic rituals but were used to organize, force, and reconcile laborers, families, and entrepreneurs into profitable export economies. The town meetings protected the value of local labor by persistently excluding outsiders and privileging the town born. The town-centered political economy of New England created a large region in which labor earned respect, relative equity ruled, workers exercised political power despite doing the most arduous tasks, and the burdens of work were absorbed by citizens themselves. In a closely observed and well-researched narrative, Town Born reveals how this social order helped create the foundation for American society.
Ancient Town Records
Author: New Haven Colony Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
... New Haven Town Records, 1649-
Author: New Haven (Conn.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Haven
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Contents: v.1 1649-1662, v.2 1662-1684, v.3 1684-1769.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Haven
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Contents: v.1 1649-1662, v.2 1662-1684, v.3 1684-1769.