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Author: Joseph S. Wood Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 9780801866135 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 254
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New England colonists, Wood argues, brought with them a cultural predisposition toward dispersed settlements within agricultural spaces called "towns" and "villages." Rarely compact in form, these communities did, however, encourage individual landholding. By the early nineteenth century, town centers, where meetinghouses stood, began to develop into the center villages we recognize today. Just as rural New England began its economic decline, Wood shows, romantics associated these proto-urban places with idealized colonial village communities as the source of both village form and commercial success.
Author: Joseph S. Wood Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 9780801866135 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 254
Book Description
New England colonists, Wood argues, brought with them a cultural predisposition toward dispersed settlements within agricultural spaces called "towns" and "villages." Rarely compact in form, these communities did, however, encourage individual landholding. By the early nineteenth century, town centers, where meetinghouses stood, began to develop into the center villages we recognize today. Just as rural New England began its economic decline, Wood shows, romantics associated these proto-urban places with idealized colonial village communities as the source of both village form and commercial success.
Author: Sumner Chilton Powell Publisher: Wesleyan University Press ISBN: 0819572683 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 254
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Pulitzer Prize Winner: “A meticulous and remarkably detailed account of the early government and social organization of the town of Sudbury, Massachusetts.” —Time In addition to drawing on local records from Sudbury, Massachusetts, the author of this classic work, which won the Pulitzer Prize in History, traced the town’s early families back to England to create an outstanding portrait of a colonial settlement in the seventeenth century. He looks at the various individuals who formed this new society; how institutions and government took shape; what changed—or didn’t—in the movement from the Old World to the New; and how those from different local cultures adjusted, adapted, competed, and cooperated to plant the seeds of what would become, in the century to follow, a commonwealth of the United States of America. “An important and interesting book . . . to the student of institutions, even to the sociologist, as well as to the historian.” —The New England Quarterly
Author: Gary Kulik Publisher: MIT Press (MA) ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 568
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This book documents the growth of industrial technology in these "little hamlets," covering the social, labor, economic, and technical aspects of this fascinating chapter in the development of American enterprise.
Author: Allen V. Koop Publisher: UPNE ISBN: 1611681006 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 184
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An evocative history of a World War II German POW camp in New Hampshire, where friendships among prisoners, guards, and villagers overcame the bitter divisions of war
Author: Cy DeCosse Incorporated Publisher: Creative Publishing International ISBN: 9780865738515 Category : Christmas in art Languages : en Pages : 102
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The timeless fascination of its Heritage Village Collection RM has made Department 56 RM, Inc. into America's leading designer and distributor of quality giftware and collectibles. Now the nostalgic charm and colorful detail that drives the popularity of the Heritage Village Collection has been captured in an exclusive new series of cross stitch patterns, the Heritage Village Collection Cross Stitch Series. Each title includes 15 full-size patterns for a single village with a complete color key and instructions. Complementing each pattern is a beautiful color photograph of the finished project as well as a photo of the original Heritage Village building. Cross stitch lovers will certainly want to own this series, and the millions of fans and collectors of the Heritage Villages offer a ready-made market for these delightful books.
Author: Amy Whorf McGuiggan Publisher: ISBN: 9781889833989 Category : Christmas Languages : en Pages : 0
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Christmas, as we celebrate it today, is a relatively recent invention. Our Puritan forefathers would not have thought of reveling in the birth of Christ-and frowned, or worse, on those who did. It was only in the nineteenth century, as the United States emerged as a nation, that so many of the traditions we take for granted as "Christmas" established themselves. So many originated in New England that, from sea to sea, American Christmas observances seem to smell of pine and fir, and even some in the South think of snow and sleighs when December 25 comes around. Christmas, writes McGuiggan, "is a cozy living room with a blazing fire, a piping mug of cider or hot chocolate and a plate of warm, spicy gingerbread boys and girls. It is woodlands of fragrant pine and an evening of crystalline air with a hint of wood smoke. It is the quaint, simple beauty of a town green and a white-steepled church aglow with candlelight. It is mittens and scarves, skating, sledding, and sleigh rides. And, most of all, it is snow." That, at least, is America's vision of a New England Christmas today. But how did all this come about? Here are some of the more than fifty holiday traditions traced and described in this fascinating treasury: Charles Follen and the Christmas Tree Church; Flying Santa; Silent Santa; Rudolph, the Most Famous Reindeer; A Magical Ride on the Polar Express; Louis Prang, Father of the American Christmas Card; Candlelight Strolls at Old Sturbridge Village and Strawbery Banke; A Norman Rockwell Christmas; and Captain James Magee's Holiday Party. Over 100 period illustrations, including a 16-page full-color insert, make this joyous book a family keepsake to be treasured by and forgenerations.
Author: Verlyn Klinkenborg Publisher: ISBN: 9781580932301 Category : Architectural photography Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book will appeal to anyone interested in architectural photography in general as well as those intrigued by the early history of America and the elegant simplicity of the hand-crafted structures.
Author: Catharine Maria Sedgwick Publisher: e-artnow ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 154
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Jane Elton is left orphaned by both of her parents who die due to unpredictable ailments.After this traumatic experience, Jane is taken in by herselfish and overbearing aunt Mrs. Wilson's. Faced with a repressive Calvinism practiced by her aunt, and the conservative and rural mentality of her new New England home, Jane longs to break free. She grows up to be a beautiful young woman who catches the eye of many gentlemen lurking around Mrs. Wilson's residence. Still struggling to identify with who she really, while constantly conflicting with her aunt, Jane chooses one of her wooers and marries him out of desperation, although her heart is with another man. Her struggles continue in form of a romantic triangle threatening to end fatally, with many other obstacles standing in the way of her happiness.
Author: Joseph S. Wood
Author: Joseph S. Wood
Author: Sumner Chilton Powell
Author: Gary Kulik
Author: Allen V. Koop
Author: Cy DeCosse Incorporated
Author: Kenneth A. Lockridge
Author: Amy Whorf McGuiggan
Author: Verlyn Klinkenborg
Author: Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Author: Paul S. Boyer