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We invent the past, Wood concludes, in our own image-as nineteenth-century villagers did quite literally and as suburban developers do today.

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We think of the quaint village with its white-clapboard church surrounding a town green and a cluster of shops as the core image of the New England colonial community. But in The New England Village Joseph S. Wood maintains that that icon was really a romantic 19th-century invention. Boston Globe

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Contents: List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: "As a City upon a Hill" 1. The Colonial Encounter with the Land 2. Village and Community in the Seventeenth Century 3. The Architectural Landscape 4. Villages in the Federal Period 5. The Village as a Vernacular Form 6. The Settlement Ideal 7. A World We Have Gained Notes Bibliography Index

The New England Village

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 19 November 2002
      ISBN-13 9780801866135
      978-0801866135
      ISBN-10 0801866138
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      City and town planning: architectural aspects

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      We invent the past, Wood concludes, in our own image-as nineteenth-century villagers did quite literally and as suburban developers do today.

      Trade Review
      We think of the quaint village with its white-clapboard church surrounding a town green and a cluster of shops as the core image of the New England colonial community. But in The New England Village Joseph S. Wood maintains that that icon was really a romantic 19th-century invention. Boston Globe

      Table of Contents
      Contents: List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: "As a City upon a Hill" 1. The Colonial Encounter with the Land 2. Village and Community in the Seventeenth Century 3. The Architectural Landscape 4. Villages in the Federal Period 5. The Village as a Vernacular Form 6. The Settlement Ideal 7. A World We Have Gained Notes Bibliography Index

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