Author: MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1928
Book Description
Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: MassachusettsReport
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
Book Description
The Publisher
Author: Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
Book Description
Dorothy Quincy, Wife of John Hancock
Author: Ellen Carolina De Quincy WoodburyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Catholic Historical Review
Author: Fundamentalists in the City
Author: Margaret Lamberts BendrothPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195173902
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
'Fundamentalists in the City' traces the rise of fundamentalist protestantism in Boston, beginning with the reaction to the perceived threat of Catholic domination of the city in the 1880s, when immigration was at its height. The book emphasises the importance of local events in dividing liberal and conservative protestants.
Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Conversing by Signs
Author: Robert Blair St. GeorgePublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807864714
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
The people of colonial New England lived in a densely metaphoric landscape--a world where familiars invaded bodies without warning, witches passed with ease through locked doors, and houses blew down in gusts of angry, providential wind. Meaning, Robert St. George argues, was layered, often indirect, and inextricably intertwined with memory, apprehension, and imagination. By exploring the linkages between such cultural expressions as seventeenth-century farmsteads, witchcraft narratives, eighteenth-century crowd violence, and popular portraits of New England Federalists, St. George demonstrates that in early New England, things mattered as much as words in the shaping of metaphor. These forms of cultural representation--architecture and gravestones, metaphysical poetry and sermons, popular religion and labor politics--are connected through what St. George calls a 'poetics of implication.' Words, objects, and actions, referentially interdependent, demonstrate the continued resilience and power of seventeenth-century popular culture throughout the eighteenth century. Illuminating their interconnectedness, St. George calls into question the actual impact of the so-called Enlightenment, suggesting just how long a shadow the colonial climate of fear and inner instability cast over the warm glow of the early national period.
The Making of Urban America
Author: John William RepsPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691238243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
This comprehensive survey of urban growth in America has become a standard work in the field. From the early colonial period to the First World War, John Reps explores to what extent city planning has been rooted in the nation's tradition, showing the extent of European influence on early communities. Illustrated by over three hundred reproductions of maps, plans, and panoramic views, this book presents hundreds of American cities and the unique factors affecting their development.