City in the woods : the life and design of an American camp meeting on Martha's Vineyard / Ellen Weiss.

Main entry:

Weiss, Ellen (Ellen B.)

Title & Author:

City in the woods : the life and design of an American camp meeting on Martha's Vineyard / Ellen Weiss.

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.

Description:

xv, 167 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-164) and index.
Camp meetings -- Wesleyan Grove : the first growth -- The cottages -- Wesleyan Grove in the 1860s -- Oak Bluffs -- Two communities : the 1870s -- City in the woods.
Also issued online.

Resources:
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Publisher description

ISBN:

0195041631 (alk. paper)
9780195041637 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association History.
Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association
Summer resorts Massachusetts Oak Bluffs.
Camp meetings Massachusetts Oak Bluffs.
Stations d'été Massachusetts Oak Bluffs.
Summer resorts
Camp meetings
Vakantiekampen.
Methodisten.
Oak Bluffs (Mass.) History.
Massachusetts Oak Bluffs
Massachusetts Martha's Vineyard Environment planning, 1835-1885

Form/genre:

Theses.
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 224
Call No.: ID:87-B10926
Status: Available

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