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Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine : commerce, culture, and community on the Eastern frontier / Kevin D. Murphy.

Title
Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine : commerce, culture, and community on the Eastern frontier / Kevin D. Murphy.
Author
Murphy, Kevin D.
Publication
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2010.

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Description
xiv, 288 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Artists > Blue Hill > Biography
  • Blue Hill (Me.) > Biography
  • Blue Hill (Me.) > Social life and customs > 19th century
  • Businessmen > Blue Hill > Biography
  • Clergy > Blue Hill > Biography
  • Community life > Blue Hill > History > 19th century
  • Congregationalists > Blue Hill > Biography
  • Farmers > Blue Hill > Biography
  • Fisher, Jonathan, 1768-1847
  • Frontier and pioneer life > Blue Hill
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: Representation and authority on the Eastern frontier -- Drawing and building, from Dedham to Blue Hill -- Domestic production in the Fisher homestead -- Religious authority on the Eastern frontier -- Teaching, learning, reading, and self-fashioning -- Painting Blue Hill -- Conclusion: Representation and resistance on the Eastern frontier.
ISBN
  • 9781558497436 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1558497439 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010008984