The New England village, with its white-painted, black-shuttered, classical-revival buildings surrounding a tree-shaded green, is one of the enduring icons of the American historical imagination. Associated in the popular mind with a time of strong community values, discipline, and economic stability, the village of New England is for many the archetypal "city on a hill." Yet in The New England Village, Joseph S. Wood argues that this village is a nineteenth-century place and its association with the colonial past a ...
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The New England village, with its white-painted, black-shuttered, classical-revival buildings surrounding a tree-shaded green, is one of the enduring icons of the American historical imagination. Associated in the popular mind with a time of strong community values, discipline, and economic stability, the village of New England is for many the archetypal "city on a hill." Yet in The New England Village, Joseph S. Wood argues that this village is a nineteenth-century place and its association with the colonial past a nineteenth-century romantic invention. New England colonists brought with them a cultural predisposition toward dispersed settlements within agricultural spaces called "towns" and "villages." Rarely compact in form, these communities did, however, encourage individual landholding. By the early nineteenth century, town centers, where meetinghouses stood, began to develop into the center villages we recognize today. Just as rural New England began its economic decline, romantics associated these proto-urban places with idealized colonial village communities as the source of both village form and commercial success. This provocative assessment of the New England village encourages critical thinking about landscape origins and meanings ascribed to them by different people in different periods. We invent the past, Wood concludes, in our own image-as nineteenth-century villagers did quite literally and as suburban developers do today.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 800grams, ISBN: 9780801854545.
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Fine Condition in Fine jacket. Dust Jacket is in fine condition without tears or chips or other damage. Review copy w/ slip. Dust Jack in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Americana, East; ISBN: 0801854547. ISBN/EAN: 9780801854545. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 14487.
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Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0801854547. Creating The North American Landscape; B&W Reproductions, Plans and Maps; Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 223 pages; 1997 The Johns Hopkins University Press. HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with b&w reproductions of period views and engravings, some maps and plans. Trace shelf evidence to jacket extremities. NF/VG++