Commerce and Culture

The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750

• Author(s): Christine Leigh Heyrman,
• Publisher: Norton
• Pages: 431
• ISBN_10: 0393955184
  ISBN_13: 9780393955187
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / State & Local / General , History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) ,

Description:... From their beginnings as simple fishing camps through their emergence as centers of the fishing industry in the eighteenth century, the communities of Gloucester and Marblehead retained the basic features of local life. In this book we are able to view life in these two maritime towns and see the remarkable continuity of traditional values and beliefs.