Author: Lockridge, Kenneth A.,
Title: A New England Town: the first hundred years.
Description: NY, Norton, (1985). Expanded ed. VG PB. Prof. Lockridge traces the origins of Dedham, MA, carefully examining its establishment as a utopia in 1636, changes that. occurred during the first four generations of its settlement, and the kind of community it had become by the mid-18th century. Was the New England town democratic, was it equalitarian, opportunity great, mobile society, static or dynamic, who had power and who wanted it. The enlarged edition includes an updated bibliography and an afterword.

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