Author: Boston (Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
City Record
Author: Boston (Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Record of Deeds and Gifts of David Sears
Author: Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books of a Gentleman Gone Abroad, Valuable Collection of Manuscripts of Craven Ord Esq., and a Curious Collection of Autographs ... which Will be Sold by Auction by Mr. Evans, at His House, No.93 Pall-Mall, on Monday January 25, and Four Following Days
Author: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Author: Publisher:
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
Military Reservations, National Military Parks, and National Cemeteries
Author: United States. Army. Office of the Judge Advocate GeneralPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military reservations
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Town Born
Author: Barry LevyPublisher: 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.
Catalogue of a valuable collection of books of a Gentleman gone abroad; a valuable collection of manuscripts of C. Ord, etc
Author: Craven ORDIndex to the City Documents, 1834 to 1909
Author: Boston (Mass.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Reports of Proceedings ...
Author: Boston (Mass.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description