The Fault Lines of Empire

The Fault Lines of Empire
Author: Elizabeth Mancke
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2005-07-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 113593066X

The Fault Lines of Empire is a fascinating comparative study of two communities in the early modern British Empire--one in Massachusetts, the other in Nova Scotia. Elizabeth Mancke focuses on these two locations to examine how British attempts at reforming their empire impacted the development of divergent political customs in the United States and Canada.

The Lobster Coast

The Lobster Coast
Author: Colin Woodard
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2005-04-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1101078073

“A thorough and engaging history of Maine’s rocky coast and its tough-minded people.”—Boston Herald “[A] well-researched and well-written cultural and ecological history of stubborn perseverance.”—USA Today For more than four hundred years the people of coastal Maine have clung to their rocky, wind-swept lands, resisting outsiders’ attempts to control them while harvesting the astonishing bounty of the Gulf of Maine. Today’s independent, self-sufficient lobstermen belong to the communities imbued with a European sense of ties between land and people, but threatened by the forces of homogenization spreading up the eastern seaboard. In the tradition of William Warner’s Beautiful Swimmers, veteran journalist Colin Woodard (author of American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good) traces the history of the rugged fishing communities that dot the coast of Maine and the prized crustacean that has long provided their livelihood. Through forgotten wars and rebellions, and with a deep tradition of resistance to interference by people “from away,” Maine’s lobstermen have defended an earlier vision of America while defying the “tragedy of the commons”—the notion that people always overexploit their shared property. Instead, these icons of American individualism represent a rare example of true communal values and collaboration through grit, courage, and hard-won wisdom.

Surnames in the United States Census of 1790

Surnames in the United States Census of 1790
Author: American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Linguistic and National Stocks in the Population of the United States
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1969
Genre: Aliens
ISBN: 0806300043

The source of surnames in the early United States.

George Magoon and the Down East Game War

George Magoon and the Down East Game War
Author: Edward D. Ives
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1993
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780252063305

George Magoon (1851-1929), a notorious moose and deer poacher in Maine, was the hero of scores of funny stories of how he outwitted game wardens. Preserving these oral histories, Edward Ives documents Magoon's life and explores his significance as a folk hero within the context of the conservation movement, the cult of the sportsman, and Maine's increasingly restrictive game laws. "A rich and subtle book, an important work by a major scholar. . . . It is a major contribution to folklore studies, and to history and American studies as well." -- Journal of American Folklore