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The Historical Massachusetts Book Collection is a collection of 56 volumes relating to the history of Massachusetts and its people primarily in the 18th and 19th centuries. Several of the volumes have great period illustrations and portraits of relevant historical figures.Here are the computer requirements to run and operate this DVD. You must have a PC running Windows or a Macintosh running OS X or higher software and a web browser. All the manuals in this disk are in DJVU format. This format allows you to page through the manuals, enlarge pages for better viewing and print the individual pages or entire manual as well as many other things. The viewer is very intuitive to use and has a full help system to answer any questions you may have about its more advanced features. The viewer is included on the DVD. ... Read more

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Volume: yr.1914Publisher: Salem, Mass., U.S.A. : Salem Press Co.Publication date: 1908Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Title: History of Shipbuilding on North River, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, With Genealogies of the Shipbuilders, and Accounts of the Industries Upon Its Tributaries. 1640 to 1872Publisher: Boston, Coburn brothers, printersPublication date: 1889Subjects: Shipbuilding -- Massachusetts Plymouth CountyNorth River (Plymouth County, Mass.)Plymouth County (Mass.) -- GenealogyNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. ... Read more

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This work consists of an alphabetical list of more than 5,000 persons who movedfrom Massachusetts to New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and other states of the middlewest. The purpose throughout is to supply name, date and town of birth, date of removal, andstate in which the pioneer settled. Additional information given includes name of spouse anddate of marriage. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The Planters of the Commonwealth came to the New World "to plant...the seeds of a new nation whose fruit should become another England, with its traditions, culture, and laws." Who were these planters? Where were they from? Why did this "Great Emigration" o ... Read more

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In this study of the role of taverns in the development of Massachusetts society, David Conroy brings into focus a vital and controversial but little-understood facet of public life during the colonial era. Concentrating on the Boston area, he reveals a popular culture at odds with Puritan social ideals, one that contributed to the transformation of Massachusetts into a republican society.Public houses were an integral part of colonial community life and hosted a variety of official functions, including meetings of the courts. They also filled a special economic niche for women and the poor, many of whom turned to tavern-keeping to earn a living. But taverns were also the subject of much critical commentary by the clergy and increasingly restrictive regulations. Conroy argues that these regulations were not only aimed at curbing the spiritual corruption associated with public houses but also at restricting the popular culture that had begun to undermine the colony's social and political hierarchy. Specifically, Conroy illuminates the role played by public houses as a forum for the development of a vocal republican citizenry, and he highlights the connections between the vibrant oral culture of taverns and the expanding print culture of newspapers and political pamphlets in the eighteenth century. ... Read more

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Dry martini - yes.Dry book - no.
OK, so I knew this is an academic treatise when I picked up HOWEVER...How an author can take such an interesting topic and completely kill it is inexcusable.This poor book suffers from information overload.The presentation is at best disjointed and repetitious.Comparative maps at the local and regional scale would be helpful, as would a chronology of significant events.The annotations and list of references are outstanding.The author has oviously dug deep into the historical archives and found some fascinating stuff.This book should shine.Instead it disappoints.Some stern stiff editing could still save this work.My recommendation: Skip the first edition and wait for revisions. ... Read more

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New reprint of 1875 edition. 556 pages. Softcovers ... Read more