An American family : the Kennans--the first three generations /
"Beginning with the Kennans' life of unmitigated poverty in Scotland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, An American Family details the Kennan family's passage to America and the hardships they faced as early settlers in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Kennan captur...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
c2000
New York : W.W. Norton, 2000 New York : c2000 New York : ©2000 |
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| Summary: | "Beginning with the Kennans' life of unmitigated poverty in Scotland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, An American Family details the Kennan family's passage to America and the hardships they faced as early settlers in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Kennan captures life in colonial times and in the period following the Revolutionary War, and chronicles the major events of a nation's early history with the rare intimacy of a family member reflecting on his forebears."--BOOK JACKET "Beginning with the Kennans' life of unmitigated poverty in Scotland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, An American Family details the Kennan family's passage to America and the hardships they faced as early settlers in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Kennan captures life in colonial times and in the period following the Revolutionary War, and chronicles the major events of a nation's early history with the rare intimacy of a family member reflecting on his forebears."--Jacket |
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| Physical Description: | 136 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm 136 p. : maps ; 25 cm 136 p. ; ill., maps ; 25 cm 136 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm 136 pages ; 24 cm 136, [1] p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 x 13 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 0393050343 9780393050349 |