Labor in a New Land : : Economy and Society in Seventeenth-Century Springfield / / Stephen Innes.

Stephen Innes studies the relationship between work, land, and community in seventeenth-century Springfield, Massachusetts. Using analytical concepts drawn from anthropology--dependence, mediation, and clientage--he shows that the town was a highly commercialized, developmental community contrasting...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1983
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 714
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Physical Description:1 online resource (220 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Social Diversity and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century NewEngland
  • Chapter 1. A Company Town
  • Chapter 2. Dominance
  • Chapter 3. Land
  • Chapter 4. Work
  • Chapter 5. Community
  • Chapter 6. Decline of the Gentry, 1684-1703
  • Epilogue. Springfield, John Pynchonf and New England Society
  • Index