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  • Series starts with "Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife annual proceedings"
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Dressing New England : Clothing, Fashion, and Identity / editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes

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Contents: Section 1. Identity and Dress -- Identity, communication, and the role of diplomacy in Wabanaki dress / Laureen LaBar -- Supporting role : the hoop skirt in 1860s Western-Massachusetts fashion / David E. Lazaro -- The life and death of the…

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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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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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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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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 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 meeting house and church, 1630-1850 / editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes

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CONTENTS: Meeting and dwelling house / Abbott L. Cummings -- Asher Benjamin and Charles Bulfinch / Jack Quinan -- Lavius Fillmore and the federal style meeting house / Glenn M. Andres -- An architectural investigation of the 1751 meeting house at…

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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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Plants and people / editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes

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CONTENTS: English agricultural practices and plant material in northern America -- Early plant stock and seed suppliers -- North American plants as medicines -- Landscapes and gardens in New England and New York -- Plants and American authors --…

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