People, Politics, and Society in Colonial Western Massachusetts - Old Hampshire County and Massachusetts Bay to the Revolution

In this book, Carl I. Hammer uses social, cultural, and political analysis to explore a broad range of significant colonial issues that affected western Massachusetts from the late seventeenth century to the American Revolution.

List of contents

Chapter 1: "The Worshipful Peter Tilton" of Hadley: A Backwoods Puritan Populist Politician and His Books
Chapter 2: "Being Old and Dayly Finding the Symptoms of Mortality": The Troubled Last Years
of Hannah Beamon of Deerfield and the Law of 1726
Chapter 3: "He Would Have the Honour of It": William Huxley's Madness and Slave
Manumission in Eighteenth-Century Suffield, Massachusetts
Chapter 4: "Her Natural Temper Disposes Her Much More to Dominion than Subjection": Abigail Williams, Jonathan Edwards and the Indian Mission at Stockbridge
Chapter 5: "To Promote Religion and Learning and Piety": The Failure of Queens College, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Revisited
Chapter 6: "To be More of a Willow and Less of an Oak": Charles Phelps, Thomas Hutchinson and the Failure of Israel Williams
Chapter 7: "Laggard Revolutionists"?: The Coming of the Revolution to Hampshire County
Conclusion: A "Surprisingly Modern" Hampshire County?

About the author

Carl I. Hammer

Summary

In this book, Carl I. Hammer uses social, cultural, and political analysis to explore a broad range of significant colonial issues that affected western Massachusetts from the late seventeenth century to the American Revolution.

Product details

• Authors: Carl I. Hammer, Hammer Carl I.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781793634320
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-432-0
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Regional and national histories; USA, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Local History, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, C 1600 To C 1700, Northeastern & North Atlantic States, US Northeast: New England, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions, USA: Colonization and Settlement ( c 1600 to c 1775)