Author: Thomas D. Seymour BassettPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Vermont, a Bibliography of Its History
Author: Thomas D. Seymour BassettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Vermont History
Author: The Star That Set
Author: Samuel B. HandPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739106006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
For over a century, from 1854, the year the party was organized, until 1958, Vermonters never failed to elect Republicans to its state and national offices, and every four years they returned a slate of electors pledged to the Republican presidential nominee. The Vermont GOP was trumpeted as the star that never set in the Republican Party's political firmament, until the decline of family farms and the influx of Democrat-leaning urbanites in the 1960s and 1970s eroded the bedrock of Vermont's GOP base. Encompassing the years 1854 to 1974, Samuel Hand's superb historical study documents the rise and fall of Vermont republicanism, exploring the personalities and the religious, political, and social institutions that constituted the Vermont Republican Party. More than simply the authoritative telling of a remarkable century of hegemony for the Vermont GOP, The Star That Set is a compelling story of the waning importance of party in modern American political life.
Bibliographic Guide to North American History
Author: Early New England
Author: David A. WeirPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802813527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The idea of covenant was at the heart of early New England society. In this singular book David Weir explores the origins and development of covenant thought in America by analyzing the town and church documents written and signed by seventeenth-century New Englanders. Unmatched in the breadth of its scope, this study takes into account all of the surviving covenants in all of the New England colonies. Weir's comprehensive survey of seventeenth-century covenants leads to a more complex picture of early New England than what emerges from looking at only a few famous civil covenants like the Mayflower Compact. His work shows covenant theology being transformed into a covenantal vision for society but also reveals the stress and strains on church-state relationships that eventually led to more secularized colonial governments in eighteenth-century New England. He concludes that New England colonial society was much more "English" and much less "American" than has often been thought, and that the New England colonies substantially mirrored religious and social change in Old England.
CHECK LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES, CATALOGUES, REFERENCE-LIST, AND LISTS OF AUTHORITIES OF AMERICAN BOOKS AND SUBJECTS.
Author: Paul Leicester FordMemorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society
Author: New England Historic Genealogical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James WellsPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1706
Book Description
A Register of Bibliographies of the English Language and Literature
Author: Clark Sutherland NorthupPublisher:
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Inventing Ethan Allen
Author: John J. DuffyPublisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1611685559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Since 1969, Ethan Allen has been the subject of three biographical studies, all of which indulge in sustaining and revitalizing the image of Allen as a physically imposing Vermont yeoman, a defender of the rights of Americans, an eloquent military hero, and a master of many guises, from rough frontiersman to gentleman philosopher. Seeking the authentic Ethan Allen, the authors of this volume ask: How did that Ethan Allen secure his place in popular culture? As they observe, this spectacular persona leaves little room for a more accurate assessment of Allen as a self-interested land speculator, rebellious mob leader, inexperienced militia officer, and truth-challenged man who would steer Vermont into the British Empire. Drawing extensively from the correspondence in Ethan Allen and his Kin and a wide range of historical, political, and cultural sources, Duffy and Muller analyze the factors that led to Ethan Allen's two-hundred-year-old status as the most famous figure in Vermont's past. Placing facts against myths, the authors reveal how Allen acquired and retained his iconic image, how the much-repeated legends composed after his death coincide with his life, why recollections of him are synonymous with the story of Vermont, and why some Vermonters still assign to Allen their own cherished and idealized values.