A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, Containing the Boston Town Records, 1778-1783
A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, Containing the Boston Town Records, 1778-1783

Author: Boston (Mass ) Record Commissioners

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-04-24

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9781354458471

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A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston
A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston

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Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9781332185702

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Excerpt from A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: Containing the Boston Town Records, 1778 to 1783 The Twenty-sixth Report of the Record Commissioners is a continuation of the Eighteenth, and contains the proceedings of the Town from 1778 through 1783, concluding the period of the Revolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Conversing by Signs
Conversing by Signs

Author: Robert Blair St. George

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2000-11-09

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0807864714

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The people of colonial New England lived in a densely metaphoric landscape--a world where familiars invaded bodies without warning, witches passed with ease through locked doors, and houses blew down in gusts of angry, providential wind. Meaning, Robert St. George argues, was layered, often indirect, and inextricably intertwined with memory, apprehension, and imagination. By exploring the linkages between such cultural expressions as seventeenth-century farmsteads, witchcraft narratives, eighteenth-century crowd violence, and popular portraits of New England Federalists, St. George demonstrates that in early New England, things mattered as much as words in the shaping of metaphor. These forms of cultural representation--architecture and gravestones, metaphysical poetry and sermons, popular religion and labor politics--are connected through what St. George calls a 'poetics of implication.' Words, objects, and actions, referentially interdependent, demonstrate the continued resilience and power of seventeenth-century popular culture throughout the eighteenth century. Illuminating their interconnectedness, St. George calls into question the actual impact of the so-called Enlightenment, suggesting just how long a shadow the colonial climate of fear and inner instability cast over the warm glow of the early national period.