Cornelia H Dayton, Sharon V Salinger

Robert Love's Warnings

Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Robert Love's Warnings follows the walks of one otherwise obscure townclerk, Robert Love, as he warned itinerants and sojourners to depart the town in fourteen days. Love's meticulous records reveal the complex legal, social, and political landscape of New England in the decade before the Revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780812224047
• ISBN-10: 0812224043
• Artikelnr.: 47972320

Autorenporträt

Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. Salinger

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue. A Walking Day
Introduction
Chapter 1. Mr. Love's Mission
Chapter 2. The Warner
Chapter 3. Origins
Chapter 4. Walking and Warning
Chapter 5. The Warned and Why They Came
Interlude. A Sojourner's Arrival
Chapter 6. Lodgings
Chapter 7. Sojourners of the Respectable Sort
Chapter 8. Travelers in Distress
Chapter 9. Warning in the Midst of Imperial Crises
Epilogue
Appendix A. Traveling Parties and Locations They Were "Last From"
Appendix B. Sources for Robert Love's Warning Records, by Date
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index