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The Resource A crisis of community : the trials and transformation of a New England town, 1815-1848, Mary Babson Fuhrer

A crisis of community : the trials and transformation of a New England town, 1815-1848, Mary Babson Fuhrer

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A crisis of community : the trials and transformation of a New England town, 1815-1848
Title
A crisis of community
Title remainder
the trials and transformation of a New England town, 1815-1848
Statement of responsibility
Mary Babson Fuhrer
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"Mary White, a shopkeeper's wife from rural Boylston, Massachusetts, kept a diary, and woven into its quotidian details of small-town farm life is a remarkable tale of conflict and transformation. Sustained by its Puritan heritage, gentry leadership, and creed of common good, Boylston had survived the upheaval of revolution and the creation of new republic. Then, quite dramatically, in the course of a single generation of wrenching change - from the 1820s-1840s--families, neighbors, church, and town descended into contentious disorder. Making use of Mary White's diary entries, as well as town minutes, letters, and the "friendship books" of school children, Mary Babson Fuhrer brings to life the unraveling of Boylston's community and the troublesome creation of a new social order, one centered on individual striving and voluntary associations in an expansive nation. Examining the "age of revolutions" through the lens of one rural community that was swept up into the dynamics of an urbanizing east coast, this engaging microhistory lends new depth to our understanding of a key transformative moment in American history."--
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contains biographical information
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Fuhrer, Mary Babson
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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  • White, Mary Avery
  • White family
  • White family
  • White, Mary Avery
  • Boylston (Mass.)
  • Boylston (Mass.)
  • Community life
  • Social change
  • HISTORY
  • HISTORY
  • Changement social
  • Communautés rurales
  • Boylston (Mass.)
  • Community life
  • Social change
  • Social conditions
  • Massachusetts
  • Boylston (Mass.)
  • Boylston (Mass.)
Label
A crisis of community : the trials and transformation of a New England town, 1815-1848, Mary Babson Fuhrer
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-343) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
The wilderness world -- A church disassembled -- Economic choice and consequences -- Fields and dreams -- Useful knowledge -- Re-forming community -- Political principles, partisan passions -- The bonds of anti-slavery -- Reaping
Control code
860944052
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xii, 354 pages
Isbn
9781469629926
Lccn
2013032613
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
Master record variable field(s) change: 651
Other control number
40023422669
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)860944052
Label
A crisis of community : the trials and transformation of a New England town, 1815-1848, Mary Babson Fuhrer
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-343) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
The wilderness world -- A church disassembled -- Economic choice and consequences -- Fields and dreams -- Useful knowledge -- Re-forming community -- Political principles, partisan passions -- The bonds of anti-slavery -- Reaping
Control code
860944052
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xii, 354 pages
Isbn
9781469629926
Lccn
2013032613
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
Master record variable field(s) change: 651
Other control number
40023422669
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)860944052

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