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Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine: Commerce, Culture, and Community on the Eastern Frontier
Kevin D. Murphy
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Description for Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine: Commerce, Culture, and Community on the Eastern Frontier
Hardcover. Examines the life of Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847), a native of Braintree, Massachusetts, and graduate of Harvard College who moved in his late twenties to Blue Hill, Maine, where he embarked on a multifaceted career as a pioneer minister, farmer, entrepreneur, and artist. Num Pages: 336 pages, 85 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 185 x 30. Weight in Grams: 807.
This title presents the extraordinary story of a clergyman-artist-entrepreneur who helped shape the New England frontier. This book examines the life of Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847), a native of Braintree, Massachusetts, and graduate of Harvard College who moved in his late twenties to Blue Hill, Maine, where he embarked on a multifaceted career as a pioneer minister, farmer, entrepreneur, and artist. Drawing on a vast record of letters, diaries, sermons, drawings, paintings, and buildings, Kevin D. Murphy reconstructs Fisher's story and uses it to explore larger issues of material culture, visual culture, and social history during the early decades of the ... Read more
This title presents the extraordinary story of a clergyman-artist-entrepreneur who helped shape the New England frontier. This book examines the life of Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847), a native of Braintree, Massachusetts, and graduate of Harvard College who moved in his late twenties to Blue Hill, Maine, where he embarked on a multifaceted career as a pioneer minister, farmer, entrepreneur, and artist. Drawing on a vast record of letters, diaries, sermons, drawings, paintings, and buildings, Kevin D. Murphy reconstructs Fisher's story and uses it to explore larger issues of material culture, visual culture, and social history during the early decades of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558497436
SKU
V9781558497436
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99-1
About Kevin D. Murphy
KEVIN D. MURPHY is professor of art history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Reviews for Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine: Commerce, Culture, and Community on the Eastern Frontier
"A fresh interpretive view of a prolific and self-conscious leader on the Eastern"