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The Great Meadow : farmers and the land in colonial Concord / Brian Donahue.

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-146652

Description

xix, 311 p., 8 p. of plates : ill., maps (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Agriculture History.
Agricultural ecology History.
Meadows History.
History.
Social life and customs To 1775.
Social life and customs.

Originator

Donahue, Brian, 1955-

Contents

Musketaquid : the native ecological system -- Mixed husbandry : the English ecological system -- The First Division and the common field system -- The Second Division -- Settling the East Quarter -- The ecological structure of colonial farming -- A town of limits -- Epilogue: Beyond the meadows.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press

Description

xix, 311 p., 8 p. of plates : ill., maps (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-303) and index.
Historic New England Honor Book, 2005.

ISBN

0300097514 (alk. paper)

Call Number

Stacks S451.M4 D66 2004

Places

Massachusetts Concord Region
Concord (Mass.)
Massachusetts

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