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  • Subject starts with "New England"

New England natives / Sheila Connor

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New England music : the public sphere, 1600-1900 / editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes

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Contents: Eighteenth-century ballroom : a mirror of social change / Kate Van Winkle Keller -- American death of Harlequin : musical pantomimes in Boston before 1815 / Peter Benes --Thomas Walter and the society for promoting regular singing in the…

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New England marriages prior to 1700

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New England collectors and collections / Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife ; Peter Benes, editor ; Jane Montague Benes, associate editor

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Contents: Introduction. Section 1. Forming early collecting institutions (early nineteenth century). "An equal taste for antiquities" : Reverend William Bentley and the American Antiquarian Society / Thomas Knoles -- "A few monstrous great snakes" :…

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New England celebrates: spectacle, commemoration, and festivity / editor: Peter Benes

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Contents: Night processings: celebrating the gunpowder plot in England and New England / Peter Benes -- "The Floral architect": rules and designs for processions / Paige W. Roberts -- The 1823 "centennial" celebration of New Hampshire's settlement /…

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New England begins : the seventeenth century / Department of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture ; Jonathan L. Fairbanks, curator ; Robert F. Trent, research associate

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Contents: 1. Introduction. Migration and settlement -- 2. Mentality and environment -- 3. Style

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New England and the Caribbean / editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes

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Contents: Section I. Extractive and provisioning trades -- The Card family and the mahogany trade : from New England to the Bay of Honduras / Jennifer L. Anderson -- New England whaling in the Caribbean / Michael P. Dyer -- Section II. Plantations…

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Life on the streets and commons, 1600 to the present / edited by Peter Benes

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Contents: Introduction / Peter Benes and Jane Montague Benes -- Purveyor to the peddlers : Nathaniel Coverly Jr., printer of songs for the streets of Boston / Kate Van Winkle Keller -- "Pedlars in divinity" : street religion in Massachusetts and…

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Indian wars of New England, by Herbert Milton Sylvester

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Contents: v. 1. Topography of Indian tribes. The early settler and the Indian. The Pequod war. Wars of the Mohegans -- v. 2. The land of the Abenake. The French occupation. King Philip's war. St. Castin's war -- v. 3. Queen Anne's war. Lovewell's…

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In our own words : New England diaries, 1600 to the present / editor, Peter Benes

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Contents: v.1. Diary diversity, coming of age; v.2. Neighborhoods, war, travel, and history

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Immigrants to New England, 1700-1775

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