Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819530344 ISBN 13: 9780819530349

Synopsis

An award-winning study of Puritans and the formation of their towns.

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Review

"Puritan Village is a model study of its kind." Malcolm Freiberg, The American Historical Review

Time"

The American Historical Review"

A meticulous and remarkably detailed account of the early government and social organization of the town of Sudbury, Massachusetts . . . The people and the events can be absorbing Time"

Puritan Village is a model study of its kind. Malcolm Freiberg, The American Historical Review"

-A meticulous and remarkably detailed account of the early government and social organization of the town of Sudbury, Massachusetts . . . The people and the events can be absorbing- --Time

-Puritan Village is a model study of its kind.---Malcolm Freiberg, The American Historical Review

"A meticulous and remarkably detailed account of the early government and social organization of the town of Sudbury, Massachusetts . . . The people and the events can be absorbing"-- "Time"

"Puritan Village is a model study of its kind."--Malcolm Freiberg "The American Historical Review"

About the Author

SUMNER CHILTON POWELL is a 1946 graduate of Amherst and received a doctorate from Harvard ten years later. A teacher of history on the secondary level (Choate, Bernard School for Boys), he has done much experimental work in tape teaching. This book - his third, but his first for an adult audience - was the culmination of ten years' detective work among local records, archives, and private collections I the U.S. and England. It received the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1964.

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819530344
• ISBN 13: 9780819530349
• Binding: Paperback