Labor in a New Land: Economy and Society in Seventeenth-Century Springfield

by Stephen Innes

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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 sharply with the communal, quietistic models that currently form our image of early New England. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691046980

ISBN13:9780691046983

Release Date:August 1983

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:490 Pages

Weight:1.90 lbs.

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