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For Educators
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Puritan Village
The Formation of a New England Town
Sumner Chilton Powell
Wesleyan University Press
1970 • 255 pp. 7 illus. 6 figs. 10 maps. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2"
New England History
$19.95 Paperback, 978-0-8195-6014-8
$9.99 Ebook, 978-0-8195-7268-4
Ebook available from your favorite ebook retailer, including Kindle, iBooks, and other formats, and many libraries.
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“A meticulous and remarkably detailed account of the early government and social organization of the town of Sudbury, Massachusetts . . . The people and the events can be absorbing” —Time
An award-winning study of Puritans and the formation of their towns.
Click here for TABLE OF CONTENTS
Reviews:
“Puritan Village is a model study of its kind.”—Malcolm Freiberg, The American Historical Review
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Awards/Recognition:
- Pulitzer Prize for History 1964
American Association for State and Local History 1963
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SUMNER CHILTON POWELL is a 1946 graduate of Amherst and received a doctorate from Harvard ten years later. A teacher of history on the secondary level (Choate, Bernard School for Boys), he has done much experimental work in tape teaching. This book – his third, but his first for an adult audience – was the culmination of ten years’ detective work among local records, archives, and private collections I the U.S. and England. It received the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1964.
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