Labor in a New Land: Economy and Society in Seventeenth-Century Springfield

by Stephen Innes

Book Overview

Stephen Innes studies the relationship between work, land, and community in seventeenth-century Springfield, Massachusetts. Using analytical concepts drawn from anthropology--dependence, mediation, and clientage--he shows that the town was a highly commercialized, developmental community contrasting sharply with the communal, quietistic models that currently form our image of early New England. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691046980
• ISBN13: 9780691046983
• Release Date: August 1983
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 490 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.