Social and Economic Networks in Early Massachusetts : : Atlantic Connections / / Marsha L. Hamilton.
The seventeenth century saw an influx of immigrants to the heavily Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony. This book redefines the role that non-Puritans and non-English immigrants played in the social and economic development of Massachusetts. Marsha Hamilton shows how non-Puritan English, Scots, and Iri...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- acknowledgments
- a note on spelling and dates
- Introduction: British and Atlantic Networks in Early Massachusetts
- 1 The Idea of Community in Early Massachusetts
- 2 Laborers in Early Massachusetts: Ironworkers at Saugus
- 3 British Communities: Agricultural Laborers and Tenant Farmers in Essex County
- 4 Massachusetts Merchants: From British to Atlantic Networks
- 5 Community and Identity in Early Massachusetts
- Conclusion: Into the Eighteenth Century
- Appendix: Population Estimates
- notes
- bibliography
- index