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

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In the first decades of the American republic, Mary White, a shopkeeper's wife from rural Boylston, Massachusetts, kept a diary.

Woven into its record of everyday events is a remarkable tale of conflict and transformation in small-town life.

Examining the tumultuous Jacksonian era at the intimate level of family and community, Mary Babson Fuhrer brings to life the troublesome creation of a new social, political, and economic order.

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1469615509 / 9781469615509
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
974.43
17/03/2014
English
354 pages
Copy: 20%; print: 20%
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