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The years from 1690 to 1765 in America have usually been considered a waiting period before the Revolution. Mr. Bushman, in his penetrating study of colonial Connecticut, takes another view. He shows how, during these years, economic ambition and religious ferment profoundly altered the structure of Puritan society, enlarging the bounds of liberty and inspiring resistance to established authority. This is an investigation of the strains that accompanied the growth of liberty in an authoritarian society. Mr. Bushman traces the deterioration of Puritan social institutions and the consequences for human character. He does this by focusing on day-to-day life in Connecticut--on the farms, in the churches, and in the town meetings. Controversies within the towns over property, money, and church discipline shook the "land of steady habits," and the mounting frustration of common needs compelled those in authority, in contradiction to Puritan assumptions, to become more responsive to popular demands. In the Puritan setting these tensions were inevitably given a moral significance. Integrating social and economic interpretations, Mr. Bushman explains the Great Awakening of the 1740's as an outgrowth of the stresses placed on the Puritan character. Men, plagued with guilt for pursuing their economic ambitions and resisting their rulers, became highly susceptible to revival preaching. The Awakening gave men a new vision of the good society. The party of the converted, the "New Lights," which also absorbed people with economic discontents, put unprecedented demands on civil and ecclesiastical authorities. The resulting dissension moved Connecticut, almost unawares, toward republican attitudes and practices. Disturbed by the turmoil, many observers were, by 1765, groping toward a new theory of social order that would reconcile traditional values with their eighteenth-century experiences. Vividly written, full of illustrative detail, the manuscript of this book has been called by Oscar Handlin one of the most important works of American history in recent years. Table of Contents: PART ONE: SOCIETY IN 1690 1. Law and Authority 2. The Town and the Economy PART TWO: LAND, 1690-1740 3. Proprietors 4. Outlivers 5. New Plantations 6. The Politics of Land PART THREE: MONEY, 1710-1750 7. New Traders 8. East versus West 9. Covetousness PART FOUR: CHURCHES, 1690-1765 10. Clerical Authority 11. Dissent 12. Awakening 13. The Church and Experimental Religion 14. Church and State PART FIVE: POLITICS, 1740-1765 15. New Lights in Politics 16. A New Social Order Appendixes Bibliographical Note List of Works Cited Index Illustrations Map of Connecticut in 1765 Map of hereditary Mohegan lands and Wabbaquasset lands Reviews of this book: Employing his special training in psychology to advantage, Bushman has skillfully woven into his description and analysis of Connecticut society in the process of change, a bold interpretation of the impact of change upon individual character formation.The author has made a signal contribution to the history of liberty in America.--William and Mary QuarterlyReviews of this book: At the heart of history lies a vague but undeniable substance known as 'national character' or 'social character'.Richard L. Bushman has had the courage to offer his version of the evolution of the social character of Connecticut.The boldness of the attempt alone would make Puritan to Yankee an important book, but it is the general accuracy of its author's perception of the way the mechanism of historical change operates and the specific accuracy 0f his assessment of the results that makes the book one of the most fruitful historical studies produced in the last few years in any field of history.--History and TheoryReviews of this book: Professor Bushman's study of eighteenth-century Connecticut is a first-rate job of social history. He deals with large questions in satisfying detail.Energy in research is combined with courage in writing.--New England Quarterly
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A pioneer in American social history, Jackson Turner Main presents the first continuous and detailed picture of the economic and social structure of an American colony from its founding up to the Revolution.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Wealth --- Affluence --- Distribution of wealth --- Fortunes --- Riches --- Business --- Economics --- Finance --- Capital --- Money --- Property --- Well-being --- History --- Connecticut --- E-books --- Connecticutt --- State of Connecticut --- New-Haven Colony --- Economic conditions.
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Chronicling the artist's life in Connecticut's "Quiet Corner"
Weir, Julian Alden, --- Weir, J. Alden --- Homes and haunts --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Windham (Conn.) --- History. --- Connecticut --- Connecticutt --- State of Connecticut --- New-Haven Colony
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Soldiers --- Sailors --- Bacon, Edward W. --- United States. --- Connecticut Infantry, 29th Regiment (1864-1865) --- Connecticut Volunteers, 29th Regiment (1864-1865) --- Connecticut --- United States --- Connecticutt --- State of Connecticut --- New-Haven Colony --- History --- Naval operations.
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Documents the rich history of Italian American working women in Connecticut, including the crucial role they played in union organizing.
Italian American families --- Italian American women --- Italian Americans --- Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Ethnology --- Italians --- Women, Italian American --- Families, Italian American --- Families --- History. --- Connecticut --- Connecticutt --- State of Connecticut --- New-Haven Colony --- Social conditions
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The Yale Law Journal publishes original scholarly work in all fields of law and legal study. The journal contains articles, essays, and book reviews written by professors and legal practitioners throughout the world, and slightly shorter notes and comments written by individual journal staff members. The journal is published monthly from October through June with the exception of February.
Law --- Law reviews --- Revues de droit --- Periodicals --- Périodiques --- Droit --- Jurisprudence --- Law reviews. --- Recht. --- Recueils, répertoires, etc. --- Connecticut. --- #RBIB:TSCAT --- #BA00193 --- #ANTILTPNE9602 --- Constitution and Judicial System --- Crime, Criminology and Law Enforcement --- General and Others --- Policies --- Périodiques --- EBSCOASP-E EJDROIT EJETUDE EPUB-ALPHA-Y EPUB-PER-FT JSTOR-E --- Law. --- Reviews, Law --- Connecticutt --- State of Connecticut --- Connecticut --- Law reviews - Connecticut.
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The story of a ""railroad"" shrouded in secrecy
Underground Railroad --- Antislavery movements --- Fugitive slaves --- Underground railroad. --- Connecticut. --- Peculiar Sam --- Slave's escape --- Escape from slavery --- Peculiar Sam, or, The underground railroad --- Slave's escape, or, The underground railroad --- Escape from slavery, or, The underground railroad --- Connecticutt --- State of Connecticut --- New-Haven Colony
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Publisher description: By focusing on the complex cultural and political facets of Native resistance to encroachment on reservation lands during the eighteenth century in southern New England, Beyond Conquest reconceptualizes indigenous histories and debates over Native land rights. As Amy E. Den Ouden demonstrates, Mohegans, Pequots, and Niantics living on reservations in New London County, Connecticut--where the largest indigenous population in the colony resided--were under siege by colonists who employed various means to expropriate reserved lands. Natives were also subjected to the policies of a colonial government that sought to strictly control them and that undermined Native land rights by depicting reservation populations as culturally and politically illegitimate. Although colonial tactics of rule sometimes incited internal disputes among Native women and men, reservation communities and their leaders engaged in subtle and sometimes overt acts of resistance to dispossession, thus demonstrating the power of historical consciousness, cultural connections to land, and ties to local kin. The Mohegans, for example, boldly challenged colonial authority and its land encroachment policies in 1736 by holding a "great dance," during which they publicly affirmed the leadership of Mahomet and, with the support of their Pequot and Niantic allies, articulated their intent to continue their legal case against the colony. Beyond Conquest demonstrates how the current Euroamerican scrutiny and denial of local Indian identities is a practice with a long history in southern New England, one linked to colonial notions of cultural--and ultimately "racial"--illegitimacy that emerged in the context of eighteenth-century disputes regarding Native land rights.
Connecticut --- Local history --- Indians of North America --- Indians, Treatment of --- Historiography, Local --- History, Local --- Local historiography --- Historiography --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Indians --- Politics and government. --- Land tenure --- History. --- Historiography. --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Government relations --- Connecticutt --- State of Connecticut --- New-Haven Colony
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Compelling first-hand accounts of the war, lavishly illustrated with rare period photos
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