Sermons in Stone The Stone Walls of New England and New York

Name: Sermons in Stone The Stone Walls of New England and New York
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ISBN: 9781581571653

ISBN-10: 1581571658

ISBN-13: 9781581571653

Edition: 2nd

Authors: Susan Allport, David Howell

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What do we actually know about stone walls? about the people who built them, and why? Stone walls are not simply monuments to the skill of Yankee farmers. The historical record makes clear that many were built by slaves, Indians, indentured servants, and children.Sermons in Stone is the surprising and illuminating history of the walls, a story that begins in the Ice Age and that has been shaped by the fencing dilemmas of the nineteenth century, by conflicts between Native Americans and colonists over land use, by American waves of immigration and suburbanization."Who would think that a history of that humble workaday structure, the stone wall, would be so full of the fascinating, the…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.06" wide x 7.60" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English