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Book SynopsisWe invent the past, Wood concludes, in our own image-as nineteenth-century villagers did quite literally and as suburban developers do today.
Trade ReviewWe 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 ContentsContents: 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
