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Commerce and culture : the maritime communities of colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750 / Christine Leigh Heyrman.

Title
Commerce and culture : the maritime communities of colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750 / Christine Leigh Heyrman.
Author
Heyrman, Christine Leigh
Publication
New York ; London : W.M. Norton & Co., c1984.

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Description
431 p.; 21 cm.
Subject
  • Gloucester (Mass.) > Civilization
  • Gloucester (Mass.) > Commerce
  • Marblehead (Mass.) > Civilization
  • Marblehead (Mass.) > Commerce
  • Massachusetts > Church history > Case studies
  • Massachusetts > Social life and customs > To 1775 > Case studies
  • Social classes > Massachusetts > History > 18th century
Genre/Form
  • Case studies.
  • Church history
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Gloucester. From fishing camp to Puritan community -- Commerce and community -- Spectres of subversion, Societies of Friends -- Status and the social order in a provincial seaport -- Revivalism and the wars of religion -- Marblehead. A fishing plantation -- Stirred up by the devil -- The church militant -- A heathenish rioting -- The making of the "Marblehead gentry" -- The church triumphant.
ISBN
0393017818
LCCN
^^^83008175^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library