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Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts
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Hardcover. Features fifteen essays that tell the story of Hadley, Massachusetts from a variety of disciplinary vantage points. This work investigates relations between Native and European communities, and explores the social, cultural, and political past of this New England town. Editor(s): Miller, Marla R. Num Pages: 384 pages, 46 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; DNF; HBJK; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 794.
This work commemorates the 350th anniversary of a historic New England town. In 1659, a group of Puritan dissenters made their way north from Hartford and Wethersfield, Connecticut, to a crook in the Connecticut River that cut through some of the most fertile land in New England. Three hundred and fifty years later, a group of distinguished scholars mark the founding of that town - Hadley, Massachusetts - with a book that explores a history as rich as that soil. Edited with an introduction by Marla R. Miller, ""Cultivating a Past"" brings together fifteen essays, some previously published and others ... Read more
This work commemorates the 350th anniversary of a historic New England town. In 1659, a group of Puritan dissenters made their way north from Hartford and Wethersfield, Connecticut, to a crook in the Connecticut River that cut through some of the most fertile land in New England. Three hundred and fifty years later, a group of distinguished scholars mark the founding of that town - Hadley, Massachusetts - with a book that explores a history as rich as that soil. Edited with an introduction by Marla R. Miller, ""Cultivating a Past"" brings together fifteen essays, some previously published and others ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558497009
SKU
V9781558497009
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Ref
99-15
About
MARLA R. MILLER is associate professor of history and director of the Public History Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is author of The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution (University of Massachusetts Press, 2006).
Reviews for Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts
A fitting act of homage to the town of Hadley and to Sylvester Judd, whose 200th anniversary volume created a model for the New England town history, set a standard for research, and showed that the lives of ordinary people were worthy of serious study. - Kevin M. Sweeney, co-author of Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid ... Read more