Author: John SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9780598359865
Category : Bermuda Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles
Author: John SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9780598359865
Category : Bermuda Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Indian New England Before the Mayflower
Author: Howard S. RussellPublisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 0874512557
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Provides a history of the New England Indians and examines their food, housing, and lifestyle
America's Founding Food
Author: Keith StavelyPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876720
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
From baked beans to apple cider, from clam chowder to pumpkin pie, Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald's culinary history reveals the complex and colorful origins of New England foods and cookery. Featuring hosts of stories and recipes derived from generations of New Englanders of diverse backgrounds, America's Founding Food chronicles the region's cuisine, from the English settlers' first encounter with Indian corn in the early seventeenth century to the nostalgic marketing of New England dishes in the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on the traditional foods of the region--including beans, pumpkins, seafood, meats, baked goods, and beverages such as cider and rum--the authors show how New Englanders procured, preserved, and prepared their sustaining dishes. Placing the New England culinary experience in the broader context of British and American history and culture, Stavely and Fitzgerald demonstrate the importance of New England's foods to the formation of American identity, while dispelling some of the myths arising from patriotic sentiment. At once a sharp assessment and a savory recollection, America's Founding Food sets out the rich story of the American dinner table and provides a new way to appreciate American history.
The New England Milton
Author: K. P. Van AnglenPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271041862
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The New England Milton concentrates on the poet's place in the writings of the Unitarians and the Transcendentalists, especially Emerson, Thoreau, William Ellery Channing, Jones Very, Margaret Fuller, and Theodore Parker, and demonstrates that his reception by both groups was a function of their response as members of the New England elite to older and broader sociopolitical tensions in Yankee culture as it underwent the process of modernization. For Milton and his writings (particularly Paradise Lost) were themselves early manifestations of the continuing crisis of authority that later afflicted the dominant class and professions in Boston; and so, the Unitarian Milton, like the Milton of Emerson's lectures or Thoreau's Walden, quite naturally became the vehicle for literary attempts by these authors to resolve the ideological contradictions they had inherited from the Puritan past.
The Sea Mark
Author: Russell M. LawsonPublisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1611685168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
By age thirty-four Captain John Smith was already a well-known adventurer and explorer. He had fought as a mercenary in the religious wars of Europe and had won renown for fighting the Turks. He was most famous as the leader of the Virginia Colony at Jamestown, where he had wrangled with the powerful Powhatan and secured the help of Pocahontas. By 1614 he was seeking new adventures. He found them on the 7,000 miles of jagged coastline of what was variously called Norumbega, North Virginia, or Cannada, but which Smith named New England. This land had been previously explored by the English, but while they had made observations and maps and interacted with the native inhabitants, Smith found that "the Coast is . . . even as a Coast unknowne and undiscovered." The maps of the region, such as they were, were inaccurate. On a long, painstaking excursion along the coast in a shallop, accompanied by sailors and the Indian guide Squanto, Smith took careful compass readings and made ocean soundings. His Description of New England, published in 1616, which included a detailed map, became the standard for many years, the one used by such subsequent voyagers as the Pilgrims when they came to Plymouth in 1620. The Sea Mark is the first narrative history of Smith's voyage of exploration, and it recounts Smith's last years when, desperate to return to New England to start a commercial fishery, he languished in Britain, unable to persuade his backers to exploit the bounty he had seen there.
New-England's Rarities Discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country
Author: John JosselynPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
A Landscape History of New England
Author: Blake A. HarrisonPublisher: Mit Press
ISBN: 9780262525275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book takes a view of New England's landscapes that goes beyond picture postcard-ready vistas of white-steepled churches, open pastures, and tree-covered mountains. Its chapters describe, for example, the Native American presence in the Maine Woods; offer a history of agriculture told through stone walls, woodlands, and farm buildings; report on the fragile ecology of tourist-friendly Cape Cod beaches; and reveal the ethnic stereotypes informing Colonial Revivalism. Taken together, they offer a wide-ranging history of New England's diverse landscapes, stretching across two centuries. The book shows that all New England landscapes are the products of human agency as well as nature. The authors trace the roles that work, recreation, historic preservation, conservation, and environmentalism have played in shaping the region, and they highlight the diversity of historical actors who have transformed both its meaning and its physical form. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, environmental studies, literature, art history, and historic preservation, the book provides fresh perspectives on New England's many landscapes: forests, mountains, farms, coasts, industrial areas, villages, towns, and cities. Illustrated, and with many archival photographs, it offers readers a solid historical foundation for understanding the great variety of places that make up New England.
Second Nature
Author: Richard William JuddPublisher:
ISBN: 9781625341013
Category : Human ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
8. Conserving Urban Ecologies -- 9. Saving Second Nature -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover
Trees of New England
Author: Charles FergusPublisher: Falcon Guides
ISBN: 9780762737956
Category : Trees
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A beautifully written natural history of the more than seventy tree species that grow in New England. Includes detailed illustrations and range maps.
Markets of New England
Author: Christine ChitnisPublisher: Little Bookroom
ISBN: 9781892145963
Category : Craft festivals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Christine Chitnis has crisscrossed New England discovering farmers markets and crafts markets, and in this book fifty of the most vibrant, unique and thriving events in the region are described and lavishly photographed.