New England Town : The First Hundred Years

by Kenneth A. Lockridge

• ISBN13: 9780393098846
• ISBN10: 0393098842
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1970-03-01
• Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated

Summary

In his highly original and controversial study. Professor Lockridge traces the origins of Dedham, Massachusetts, carefully examining its establishment as a utopia in 1636, the changes that occurred during the first four generations of its settlement, and the kind of community it had become by the mid-eighteenth century.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Policies of Perfection: the Town	p. 3
The Heart of Perfection: the Church	p. 23
The Pattern of Communal Politics	p. 37
The Pattern of Communal Society	p. 57
Decline	p. 79
Toward a New Community	p. 93
Toward a New Politics	p. 119
Toward a New Society?	p. 139
Dedham and the American Experience	p. 167
Afterword	p. 181
Bibliographic Essay	p. 193
Index	p. 213
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