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The New England Village by Joseph S. Wood (Paperback, 2002)

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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 19th-century place and its association with the colonial past a 19th-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 19th century, town centres, where meetinghouses stood, began to develop into the centre 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 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 19th-century villagers did quite literally and as suburban developers do today.

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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13
9780801866135
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95452990

Product Key Features

Author
Josephs. Wood
Publication Name
The New England Village
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
248 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
522g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Josephs. Wood
Series Title
Creating the North American Landscape
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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