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Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America
Joseph A. Conforti
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Paperback. Conforti discusses how these subcommunities of white, red, and black strangers to Protestant piety retained their own cultures, coexisted, and even thrived within and beyond the domains of Puritan settlement, creating tensions and pressure points in the later development of early America. Series: Regional Perspectives on Early America. Num Pages: 248 pages, 11, 7 black & white halftones, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
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. In a concise volume aimed at general readers and college students as well as historians, Conforti shows ... Read more
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. In a concise volume aimed at general readers and college students as well as historians, Conforti shows ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Regional Perspectives on Early America
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801882548
SKU
V9780801882548
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About Joseph A. Conforti
Joseph A. Conforti is a professor of American and New England studies at the University of Southern Maine.
Reviews for Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America
A concise, informed history of the region.
William David Barry Maine Sunday Telegram 2006 Conforti's book will give you better understanding of Colonial New England and the lives of your ancestors who settled there.
Sharon DeBartolo Carmack Family Tree Magazine 2007 The most innovative characteristic of Saints and Strangers is surely its integration of so many different people ... Read more
William David Barry Maine Sunday Telegram 2006 Conforti's book will give you better understanding of Colonial New England and the lives of your ancestors who settled there.
Sharon DeBartolo Carmack Family Tree Magazine 2007 The most innovative characteristic of Saints and Strangers is surely its integration of so many different people ... Read more