Author: Dedham (Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dedham (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Early Records of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts
Author: Dedham (Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dedham (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Dedham Historical Register
Author: 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.
Dedham Historical Register
Author: Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1396
Book Description
The Rise of the Representative
Author: Peverill SquirePublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472122924
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Representation is integral to the study of legislatures, yet virtually no attention has been given to how representative assemblies developed and what that process might tell us about how the relationship between the representative and the represented evolved. The Rise of the Representative corrects that omission by tracing the development of representative assemblies in colonial America and revealing they were a practical response to governing problems, rather than an imported model or an attempt to translate abstract philosophy into a concrete reality. Peverill Squire shows there were initially competing notions of representation, but over time the pull of the political system moved lawmakers toward behaving as delegates, even in places where they were originally intended to operate as trustees. By looking at the rules governing who could vote and who could serve, how representatives were apportioned within each colony, how candidates and voters behaved in elections, how expectations regarding their relationship evolved, and how lawmakers actually behaved, Squire demonstrates that the American political system that emerged following independence was strongly rooted in colonial-era developments.
Catalogue Or Bibliography of the Library of the Huguenot Society of America
Author: Huguenot Society of America. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Huguenots
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Story of Walpole, 1724-1924
Author: Willard De LuePublisher:
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Category : Walpole (Mass. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Report on the Custody and Conditions of the Public Records of Parishes, Towns, and Counties ...
Author: Massachusetts. Record CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Report on the Custody and Condition of the Public Records of Parishes, Towns, and Counties
Author: Massachusetts. Record CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description