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001 2013032613
003 DLC
005 20141029082605.0
008 131107s2014 ncua b s001 0deng
010 $a 2013032613
020 $a9781469612867 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
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043 $an-us-ma
050 00 $aF74.B56$bF85 2014
082 00 $a974.4/3$223
084 $aHIS036100$aHIS036040$2bisacsh
100 1 $aFuhrer, Mary Babson.
245 12 $aA crisis of community :$bthe trials and transformation of a New England town, 1815-1848 /$cMary Babson Fuhrer.
264 1 $aChapel Hill :$bThe University of North Carolina Press,$c[2014]
300 $axii, 354 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 319-343) and index.
520 $a"Mary White, a shopkeeper's wife from rural Boylston, Massachusetts, kept a diary, and woven into its quotidian details of small-town farm life is a remarkable tale of conflict and transformation. Sustained by its Puritan heritage, gentry leadership, and creed of common good, Boylston had survived the upheaval of revolution and the creation of new republic. Then, quite dramatically, in the course of a single generation of wrenching change - from the 1820s-1840s--families, neighbors, church, and town descended into contentious disorder. Making use of Mary White's diary entries, as well as town minutes, letters, and the "friendship books" of school children, Mary Babson Fuhrer brings to life the unraveling of Boylston's community and the troublesome creation of a new social order, one centered on individual striving and voluntary associations in an expansive nation. Examining the "age of revolutions" through the lens of one rural community that was swept up into the dynamics of an urbanizing east coast, this engaging microhistory lends new depth to our understanding of a key transformative moment in American history. "--$cProvided by publisher.
651 0 $aBoylston (Mass.)$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aBoylston (Mass.)$xSocial conditions$y19th century.
650 0 $aCommunity life$zMassachusetts$zBoylston.
650 0 $aSocial change$zMassachusetts$zBoylston.
600 10 $aWhite, Mary Avery,$d1778-1860.
600 30 $aWhite family.
650 7 $aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT).$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers/1116/2847337/image/lgcover.9781469612867.jpg