Author: Sumner Chilton Powell
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2019-02-12
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0819572683
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: John Hayward
Publisher:
Published: 1839
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a book titled "The New England Gazetteer." It contains descriptions of all the states, counties, and towns in New England. It also describes principal mountains, lakes, rivers, capes, bays, harbors, islands and resorts within New England. The book was published in 1839 by Israel S. Boyd and William White. The inside front and back covers include genealogical information on members of a European-American family with the surname "Brown" as well as information relating to Native place names.
Author: Lois Kimball Mathews Rosenberry
Publisher:
Published: 1909
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Joseph F. Zimmerman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1999-03-30
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0313003637
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this groundbreaking study, Zimmerman explores the town meeting form of government in all New England states. This comprehensive work relies heavily upon surveys of town officers and citizens, interviews, and mastery of the scattered writing on the subject. Zimmerman finds that the stereotypes of the New England open town meeting advanced by its critics are a serious distortion of reality. He shows that voter superintendence of town affairs has proven to be effective, and there is no empirical evidence that thousands of small towns and cities with elected councils are governed better. Whereas the relatively small voter attendance suggests that interest groups can control town meetings, their influence has been offset effectively by the development of town advisory committees, particularly the finance committee and the planning board, which are effective counterbalances to pressure groups. Zimmerman provides a new conception of town meeting democracy, positing that the meeting is a de facto representative legislative body with two safety valves—open access to all voters and the initiative to add articles to the warrant, and the calling of special meetings to reconsider decisions made at the preceding town meeting. And, as Zimmerman points out, a third safety valve—the protest referendum—can be adopted by a town meeting.
Author: Virginia Lund-Wilkins
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2022-02-21
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1665551410
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How would you like to take a stroll with me, a stroll down memory lane? Travel down a dirt road in a small New England town of about 800-900 people in a time when America was struggling out of depression.
Author: Various
Publisher: Litres
Published: 2021-12-02
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 5040867581
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