Saints and strangers : New England in British North America

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Saints and strangers : New England in British North America
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New England in British North America
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Joseph A. Conforti
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Language
eng
Summary
In the first general history of colonial New England to be published in over twenty-five years, Joseph A. Conforti synthesizes current and classic scholarship to explore how Puritan saints and "strangers" to Puritanism participated in the making of colonial New England. Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop's famous description of New England as a "city upon a hill" has tended to reduce the region's history to an exclusively Pilgrim-Puritan drama, a world of narrow-minded founders, the First Thanksgiving, steepled churches, and the Salem witchcraft trials. Conforti shows that New England was neither as Puritan nor as insular as most familiar stories imply. As the region evolved into British America's preeminent maritime region, the Atlantic Ocean served as a highway of commercial and cultural encounter, connecting white English settlers to different races and religious communities of the transatlantic world
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DLC
Dewey number
974
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
F7
LC item number
.C74 2006
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Regional perspectives on early America

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