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Fierce Communion: Family and Community in Early America (Harvard Historical Studies) - Softcover

Wall, Helena M.

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9780674299597: Fierce Communion: Family and Community in Early America (Harvard Historical Studies)
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ISBN 10: 0674299590 ISBN 13: 9780674299597
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Helena Wall shows what life was like in colonial America, a culture where individuals and family were subordinated to the demands of the community. Using local town, church, and especially court records from every colony, she examines the division of authority between family and community throughout colonial America.

Although this close relationship and its consequences for private life bred many tensions and conflicts, the premises and conditions of that interdependent association persisted even into the nineteenth century. Wall sketches the subsequent changes and outlines the new arrangements of family and community life as the colonies moved toward the formation of a new nation.

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Helena M. Wall is Associate Professor of History, Pomona College.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0674299590
ISBN 13 
9780674299597
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
256
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