{"product_id":"the-new-england-village-9780801866135","title":"The New England Village","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe invent the past, Wood concludes, in our own image-as nineteenth-century villagers did quite literally and as suburban developers do today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:      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","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527614374231,"sku":"9780801866135","price":33.33,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801866135.jpg?v=1731868550","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-new-england-village-9780801866135","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}