Massachusetts a bicentennial history
Richard D. Brown
- New York W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1978
- 246 p.
- States and the Nation .
Includes Bibliography and Index
The country the Englishmen found -- The worlds of Bradford and Winthrop -- Piety and plenty in the American Canaan -- Revolutionary vanguard -- A republic of virtue or liberty? -- The hive of industry -- Missions to the nation -- The first stages of pluralism -- The new industrial commonwealth.
A study of the history and socio-economic development of Massachusetts since the colonial era focuses on the struggle to reconcile the concept of individual liberty with the establishment of public order