A crisis of community : the trials and transformation of a New England town, 1815-1848 / Mary Babson Fuhrer.

"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...

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Main Author: Fuhrer, Mary Babson
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
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