The New England Village
Author:   Joseph S. Wood
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780801866135


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   19 November 2002
Recommended Age:   From 17
Format:   Paperback
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The New England Village


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Author:   Joseph S. Wood
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780801866135


ISBN 10:   0801866138
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   19 November 2002
Recommended Age:   From 17
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

Table of Contents

"Contents: List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: ""As a City upon a Hill"" 1. The Colonial Encounter with the Land 2. Village and Community in the Seventeenth Century 3. The Architectural Landscape 4. Villages in the Federal Period 5. The Village as a Vernacular Form 6. The Settlement Ideal 7. A World We Have Gained Notes Bibliography Index"

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<p> We think of the quaint village with its white-clapboard church surrounding a town green and a cluster of shops as the core image of the New England colonial community. But in The New England Village Joseph S. Wood maintains that that icon was really a romantic 19th-century invention. -- Boston Globe


We think of the quaint village with its white-clapboard church surrounding a town green and a cluster of shops as the core image of the New England colonial community. But in The New England Village Joseph S. Wood maintains that that icon was really a romantic 19th-century invention. * Boston Globe *


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Joseph S. Wood is the provost and a professor of geography at the University of Southern Maine.

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