New Views of New England

New Views of New England
Author: Georgia Brady Barnhill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Material culture
ISBN: 9780985254308

Beautifully illustrated, this collection of essays will introduce the reader to a rich, surprising, thought-provoking, and entirely new view of early New England. Eleven essays written by historians, archaeologists, art and architectural historians, and literary scholars recast our understanding of New England by setting its material and visual culture in new contexts. Essays on the archaeology of seventeenth-century Maine settlements, the geographical knowledge of Salem sailors and ship captains, the mid-eighteenth-century cartographic depictions of Boston, and the built environment of Maine in the early nineteenth century all place New England into the broader purview of a transoceanic movement of people, ideas, and objects.

New England's Roadside Ecology

New England's Roadside Ecology
Author: Tom Wessels
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2021-09-14
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1643260944

Step Out of Your Car and Right into Nature! New England’s Roadside Ecology guides you through 30 spectacular natural sites, all within an easy walk from the road. The sites include the forests, wetlands, alpines, dunes, and geologic ecosystems that make up New England. Author Tom Wessels is the perfect guide. Each entry starts with the brief description of the hike's level of difficulty—all are gentle to moderate and cover no more than two miles. Entries also include turn-by-turn directions and clear descriptions of the flora, fauna, and fungi you are likely to encounter along the way. New England’s Roadside Ecology is a must-have guide for outdoor enthusiasts, hikers, and tourists in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

New England Views

New England Views
Author: Mark Kanegis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-12
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781493055241

New England Views: Coastal Massachusetts is a collection of stunning imagery that defines the characteristics of the region including the seascapes, landscapes, majestic lighthouses, cascading waterfalls, beaches, and harbors filled with fishing boats. The images are a colorful blend of people, places, and seasons that create a tapestry that is uniquely New England.

Thomas Jefferson's Image of New England

Thomas Jefferson's Image of New England
Author: Arthur Scherr
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2016-10-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0786475374

Writers often depict Thomas Jefferson as a narrow-minded defender of states' rights and Virginia's interests, despite his authorship of the Declaration of Independence and vigorous defense of the young republic's sovereignty. Some historians claim he was particularly hostile to the New England states, whose Federalist electorate he regarded as enemies of his Democratic-Republican Party. This study of Jefferson's lifelong relationship with New England reveals him to be a consistent nationalist and friend of the region, from his first visit to Boston in 1784 to his recruiting of Massachusetts scholars to teach at the University of Virginia. His nationalist point of view is most evident where some historians claim to see it least: in his opinions of the people and politics of New England. He admired New Englanders' Revolutionary patriotism, especially that of his friend John Adams, and considered their direct democracy and town-meeting traditions a model for the rest of the Union.

"Good News from New England"

Author: Edward Winslow
Publisher: Native Americans of the Northe
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781625340832

First Published in 1624, Edward Winslow's Good News from New England chronicles the early experience of the Plimoth colonists, or Pilgrims, in the New World. His account was an attempt to convince supporters in England that the colonists had established friendly relations with Native groups and, as a result, gained access to trade goods. Although clearly a work of diplomacy, masking as it did incidents of brutal violence against Indians as well as evidence of mutual mistrust, the text nevertheless offers more complicated and nuanced representation of the Pilgrims' first years in New England than other primary documents of the period. In this scholarly edition, Kelly Wise cup supplements Good News with an introduction, additional primary texts, and annotations to bring to light multiple perspectives, including those of the first European travelers to the area. Native captives who traveled to London and shaped Algonquian responses to colonists, the survivors of epidemics that struck New England between 1616 and 1619, and the witnesses of the colonists' attack on the Massachusetts.