Author: Henry Hamilton SaundersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charlestown (N.H. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
History of Charlestown, New-Hampshire, the Old No. 4
Author: Henry Hamilton SaundersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charlestown (N.H. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
The Third HIstory of Charlestown NH
Author: Joyce A. HigginsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780615796611
Category : Charlestown (N.H. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
A history of Charlestown NH from 1954-2009.
The town proprietors of the New England Colonies: a study of their...
Author: Roy Hidemichi AkagiNew Hampshire, a Bibliography of Its History
Author: Committee for a New England BibliographyPublisher: Boston : G. K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Papers of Josiah Bartlett
Author: Josiah BartlettPublisher: N. H. Historical Society
ISBN: 9780874511680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The Town Proprietors of the New England Colonies
Author: Roy Hidemichi AkagiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine
Author: George Thomas LittlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy
Author: Strother E. RobertsPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081225127X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Focusing on the Connecticut River Valley—New England's longest river and largest watershed— Strother Roberts traces the local, regional, and transatlantic markets in colonial commodities that shaped an ecological transformation in one corner of the rapidly globalizing early modern world. Reaching deep into the interior, the Connecticut provided a watery commercial highway for the furs, grain, timber, livestock, and various other commodities that the region exported. Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy shows how the extraction of each commodity had an impact on the New England landscape, creating a new colonial ecology inextricably tied to the broader transatlantic economy beyond its shores. This history refutes two common misconceptions: first, that globalization is a relatively new phenomenon and its power to reshape economies and natural environments has only fully been realized in the modern era and, second, that the Puritan founders of New England were self-sufficient ascetics who sequestered themselves from the corrupting influence of the wider world. Roberts argues, instead, that colonial New England was an integral part of Britain's expanding imperialist commercial economy. Imperial planners envisioned New England as a region able to provide resources to other, more profitable parts of the empire, such as the sugar islands of the Caribbean. Settlers embraced trade as a means to afford the tools they needed to conquer the landscape and to acquire the same luxury commodities popular among the consumer class of Europe. New England's native nations, meanwhile, utilized their access to European trade goods and weapons to secure power and prestige in a region shaken by invading newcomers and the diseases that followed in their wake. These networks of extraction and exchange fundamentally transformed the natural environment of the region, creating a landscape that, by the turn of the nineteenth century, would have been unrecognizable to those living there two centuries earlier.
People of the Wachusett
Author: David P. JaffeePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501725823
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Nashaway became Lancaster, Wachusett became Princeton, and all of Nipmuck County became the county of Worcester. Town by town, New England grew—Watertown, Sudbury, Turkey Hills, Fitchburg, Westminster, Walpole—and with each new community the myth of America flourished. In People of the Wachusett the history of the New England town becomes the cultural history of America's first frontier. Integral to this history are the firsthand narratives of town founders and citizens, English, French, and Native American, whose accounts of trading and warring, relocating and putting down roots proved essential to the building of these communities. Town plans, local records, broadside ballads, vernacular house forms and furniture, festivals—all come into play in this innovative book, giving a rich picture of early Americans creating towns and crafting historical memory. Beginning with the Wachusett, in northern Worcester County, Massachusetts, David Jaffee traces the founding of towns through inland New England and Nova Scotia, from the mid-seventeenth century through the Revolutionary Era. His history of New England's settlement is one in which the replication of towns across the landscape is inextricable from the creation of a regional and national culture, with stories about colonization giving shape and meaning to New England life.