Author: William BradfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647
Author: William BradfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Plymouth
Author: Jeremy GouldPublisher: Historic England Press
ISBN: 9781848020504
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Post-war reconstruction offered unparalleled opportunities to the developing profession of urban planners to cast off the constraints imposed by historic infrastructure and produce a new vision of urban living, expressed in rationally designed city centres linked to suburban precincts and with modern integrated transport systems. Plymouth is the foremost English example of post-war reconstruction on the grand scale, laid out to the designs of the most influential urban planner of the day, Sir Patrick Abercrombie. This book explains the circumstances which led to the development of Abercrombie's Plan for Plymouth (1943) and shows how the plan was implemented in the period 1945-62. Discussion of the overall scheme for the renewed city is complemented by description of the different zones which made up both the central area and the new suburbs, and attention is paid to the landscape forms and architectural styles employed in civic, commercial and residential areas. The significance of what was achieved in Plymouth will be assessed and international context is provided by comparison with British and European examples of contemporary planning. Urban regeneration programmes pose a threat to the legacy of the post-war reconstruction period, and the listing of post-war buildings is often contentious and contested. Finally, a discussion of the conservation issues raised by present-day plans for renewal in Plymouth will contribute to current debate about the formulation of policy relating to the buildings and landscapes of the post-war era.
A History of Plymouth
Author: Llewellynn Frederick William JewittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
History of the Town of Plymouth, from Its First Settlement in 1620, to the Present Time
Author: James ThacherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The World of Plymouth Plantation
Author: Carla Gardina PestanaPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067425080X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
An intimate look inside Plymouth Plantation that goes beyond familiar founding myths to portray real life in the settlement—the hard work, small joys, and deep connections to others beyond the shores of Cape Cod Bay. The English settlement at Plymouth has usually been seen in isolation. Indeed, the colonists gain our admiration in part because we envision them arriving on a desolate, frozen shore, far from assistance and forced to endure a deadly first winter alone. Yet Plymouth was, from its first year, a place connected to other places. Going beyond the tales we learned from schoolbooks, Carla Gardina Pestana offers an illuminating account of life in Plymouth Plantation. The colony was embedded in a network of trade and sociability. The Wampanoag, whose abandoned village the new arrivals used for their first settlement, were the first among many people the English encountered and upon whom they came to rely. The colonists interacted with fishermen, merchants, investors, and numerous others who passed through the region. Plymouth was thereby linked to England, Europe, the Caribbean, Virginia, the American interior, and the coastal ports of West Africa. Pestana also draws out many colorful stories—of stolen red stockings, a teenager playing with gunpowder aboard ship, the gift of a chicken hurried through the woods to a sickbed. These moments speak intimately of the early North American experience beyond familiar events like the first Thanksgiving. On the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing and the establishment of the settlement, The World of Plymouth Plantation recovers the sense of real life there and sets the colony properly within global history.
History of the Town of Plymouth [New England].
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Author: James THACHERPlymouth, England, and Its Links with America. [Illustrated.].
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Author: Plymouth. [Appendix.]A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820. In Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England. ...
Author: Daniel WebsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A History of Plymouth
Author: Llewellynn Frederick William JewittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
One Small Candle
Author: Francis J. BremerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197510051
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Four hundred years ago, a group of men and women who had challenged the religious establishment of early seventeenth-century England and struggled as refugees in the Netherlands risked everything to build a new community in America. The story of those who journeyed across the Atlantic on the Mayflower has been retold many times, but the faith and religious practices of these settlers has frequently been neglected or misunderstood. In One Small Candle, Francis J. Bremer focuses on the role of religion in the settlement of the Plymouth Colony and how those values influenced political, intellectual, and cultural aspects of New England life a hundred and fifty years before the American Revolution. He traces the Puritans' persecution in early seventeenth-century England for challenging the established national church and the difficulties they faced as refugees in the Netherlands in the 1610s. As they planted a colony in America, this group of puritan congregationalists was driven by the belief that ordinary men and women should play the deciding role in governing church affairs. Their commitment to lay empowerment and participatory democracy was reflected in congregational church covenants and inspired the earliest political forms of the region, including the Mayflower Compact and local New England town meetings. Their rejection of individual greed and focus on community, Bremer argues, defined the culture of English colonization in early North America. A timely narrative of the people who founded the Plymouth Colony, One Small Candle casts new light on the role of religion in the shaping of the United States.