Massachusetts Bay Tercentenary, Dedham, October 6-11, 1930
Title | Massachusetts Bay Tercentenary, Dedham, October 6-11, 1930 PDF eBook |
Author | Dedham Transcript |
Publisher | |
Pages | 185 |
Release | 1930 |
Genre | Dedham (Mass.) |
ISBN |
Trustee for a City
Title | Trustee for a City PDF eBook |
Author | Mark I. Gelfand |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781555533694 |
The fascinating story of continuity and change inside Boston's cultural establishment.
Descendants of John and Mary Coolidge of Watertown, Massachusetts, 1630
Title | Descendants of John and Mary Coolidge of Watertown, Massachusetts, 1630 PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Downing Coolidge |
Publisher | |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1930 |
Genre | |
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The History of Winthrop, Massachusetts
Title | The History of Winthrop, Massachusetts PDF eBook |
Author | William H. Clark |
Publisher | |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 1952 |
Genre | Winthrop (Mass.) |
ISBN |
History of Windham County, Connecticut: 1600-1760
Title | History of Windham County, Connecticut: 1600-1760 PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Douglas Larned |
Publisher | |
Pages | 618 |
Release | 1874 |
Genre | Windham County (Conn.) |
ISBN |
Old Homes Made New
Title | Old Homes Made New PDF eBook |
Author | William M. Woollett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | Architecture, Domestic |
ISBN |
Creatures of Empire
Title | Creatures of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia DeJohn Anderson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 493 |
Release | 2004-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199839727 |
When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England and the Chesapeake region, livestock played a vitally important role in the settling of the New World. Livestock, Anderson writes, were a central factor in the cultural clash between colonists and Indians as well as a driving force in the expansion west. By bringing livestock across the Atlantic, colonists believed that they provided the means to realize America's potential. It was thought that if the Native Americans learned to keep livestock as well, they would be that much closer to assimilating the colonists' culture, especially their Christian faith. But colonists failed to anticipate the problems that would arise as Indians began encountering free-ranging livestock at almost every turn, often trespassing in their cornfields. Moreover, when growing populations and an expansive style of husbandry required far more space than they had expected, colonists could see no alternative but to appropriate Indian land. This created tensions that reached the boiling point with King Philip's War and Bacon's Rebellion. And it established a pattern that would repeat time and again over the next two centuries. A stunning account that presents our history in a truly new light, Creatures of Empire restores a vital element of our past, illuminating one of the great forces of colonization and the expansion westward.