The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences

VOICES OF THE NEW REPUBLIC
Connecticut Towns 1800-1832
Volume II: What We Think
 HOWARD R. LAMAR, Editor
 CAROLYN C. COOPER, Associate Editor

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Controversial History of Connecticut in the Early National Period 1790-1830, Howard R. Lamar and Carolyn C. Cooper

The Connecticut Academy: A Child Born in the Eye of a Revolutionary Storm, Richard Buel

A View from Above: The Town Reports in Ecclesiastical History, David W. Kling

The Religious Landscape, Gretchen T. Buggeln

Art and Science in Crop and Livestock Improvement: The Connecticut Towns Survey and Agricultural Change Around 1800, Kathy J. Cooke

Fertile Farms among the Stones, Paul E. Waggoner

The State of Connecticut Agriculture in 1800, Holly V. Izard

Connecticut's Home Dairies, c. 1800: "Of Too Great Utility to be Passed over in Silence," Caroline F. Sloat

With "Unshaken Heroism and Fortitude:" Connecticut Women's Life and Work Two Hundred Years Ago, Ruth Barnes Moynihan

Disease and Medicine in Connecticut around 1800, Toby A. Appel

"A Privilege and Elevation to Which We Look Forward with Pleasure:" The Connecticut Academy and Black Emancipation, Peter P. Hinks

Invisible Indians: The Connecticut Academy Town Reports, Jill E. Martin

Fisheries, Daniel Vickers

Ships and Shipping in Connecticut, 1790-1811, William N. Peterson

The Embedded Nature of Artisanal Activity in Connecticut, ca. 1800, Edward S. Cooke, Jr.

Technology in Transition: Connecticut Industries 1800-1832, Carolyn C. Cooper

Travel on Connecticut's Roads, Bridges, and Ferries, 1790-1830, Robert B. Gordon

Mines, Minerals, Quarries, and Fuels: Connecticut, 1800-1832, H. Catherine W. Skinner and Brian J. Skinner

Wild Animals in Connecticut's Changing Landscape, Harvey R. Smith & Tim W. Clark

Connecticut Woodlands 1800-1836, George McLeane Milne

Connecticut Towns c.1800: Some Botanical and Ecological Observations, William A. Niering

Physical Environment of Connecticut Towns: Processes, Attitudes and Perceptions Then and Now, Robert M. Thorson

The Ups and Downs of the Connecticut Town in the Preindustrial Era, Christopher Collier

The Remarkable Complexity of the Simple New England Town, Bruce C. Daniels

Maps
Biographical Sketches of Volume II Authors
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index to Volumes I and II

Volume I Table of Contents

Editors' Biographies

Essayists' Biographies

 

Volume I: What They Said ISBN 1-878508-24-5
493 pp., cloth, 8.5 x 11, illus., $31.95
Volume II: What We Think
ISBN 1-878508-25-3
338 pp., cloth, 8.5 x 11, illus., $31.95

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