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Author | : Sumner Chilton Powell |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2019-02-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0819572683 |
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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 | : Lyman Pierson Powell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : New England |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kenneth A. Lockridge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Dedham (Mass.) |
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Author | : Herbert Baxter Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : Local government |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Historic buildings |
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Author | : Frank M. Bryan |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2010-03-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0226077985 |
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Relying on an astounding collection of more than three decades of firsthand research, Frank M. Bryan examines one of the purest forms of American democracy, the New England town meeting. At these meetings, usually held once a year, all eligible citizens of the town may become legislators; they meet in face-to-face assemblies, debate the issues on the agenda, and vote on them. And although these meetings are natural laboratories for democracy, very few scholars have systematically investigated them. A nationally recognized expert on this topic, Bryan has now done just that. Studying 1,500 town meetings in his home state of Vermont, he and his students recorded a staggering amount of data about them—238,603 acts of participation by 63,140 citizens in 210 different towns. Drawing on this evidence as well as on evocative "witness" accounts—from casual observers to no lesser a light than Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn—Bryan paints a vivid picture of how real democracy works. Among the many fascinating questions he explores: why attendance varies sharply with town size, how citizens resolve conflicts in open forums, and how men and women behave differently in town meetings. In the end, Bryan interprets this brand of local government to find evidence for its considerable staying power as the most authentic and meaningful form of direct democracy. Giving us a rare glimpse into how democracy works in the real world, Bryan presents here an unorthodox and definitive book on this most cherished of American institutions.
Author | : Kenneth A. Lockridge |
Publisher | : New York : Norton |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Dedham (Mass.) |
ISBN | : 9780393053814 |
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Author | : Alice Morse Earle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Clothing and dress |
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Author | : Mary Caroline Crawford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : George Lunt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Manners and customs |
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