The Wyllys Papers
Author : George Wyllys
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Page : 622 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Connecticut
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Author : George Wyllys
Publisher :
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Connecticut
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Publisher : Richard Tomlinson
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 1978-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780967874012
Author : Susan Hardman Moore
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300117189
This book uncovers what might seem to be a dark side of the American dream: the New World from the viewpoint of those who decided not to stay. At the core of the volume are the life histories of people who left New England during the British Civil Wars and Interregnum, 1640–1660. More than a third of the ministers who had stirred up emigration from England deserted their flocks to return home. The colonists’ stories challenge our perceptions of early settlement and the religious ideal of New England as a "City on a Hill." America was a stage in their journey, not an end in itself. Susan Hardman Moore first explores the motives for migration to New England in the 1630s and the rhetoric that surrounded it. Then, drawing on extensive original research into the lives of hundreds of migrants, she outlines the complex reasons that spurred many to brave the Atlantic again, homeward bound. Her book ends with the fortunes of colonists back home and looks at the impact of their American experience. Of exceptional value to studies of the connections between the Old and New Worlds, Pilgrims contributes to debates about the nature of the New England experiment and its significance for the tumults of revolutionary England.
Author : Connecticut Historical Society
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Connecticut
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Author : Connecticut Historical Society
Publisher :
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 14,74 MB
Release : 1919
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Author : Thomas Robbins
Publisher :
Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 31,87 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Clergy
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Author : Jane Kamensky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,97 MB
Release : 1999-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0195351363
Governing the Tongue explains why the spoken word assumed such importance in the culture of early New England. In a work that is at once historical, socio-cultural, and linguistic, Jane Kamensky explores the little-known words of unsung individuals, and reconsiders such famous Puritan events as the banishment of Anne Hutchinson and the Salem witch trials, to expose the ever-present fear of what the Puritans called "sins of the tongue." But even while dangerous or deviant speech was restricted, as Kamensky illustrates here, godly speech was continuously praised and promoted. Congregations were told that one should lift one's voice "like a trumpet" to God and "cry out and cease not." By placing speech at the heart of New England's early history, Kamensky develops new ideas about the complex relationship between speech and power in both Puritan New England and, by extension, our world today.
Author : Emerson W. Baker
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,97 MB
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0230606830
In 1682, ten years before the infamous Salem witch trials, the town of Great Island, New Hampshire, was plagued by mysterious events: strange, demonic noises; unexplainable movement of objects; and hundreds of stones that rained upon a local tavern and appeared at random inside its walls. Town residents blamed what they called "Lithobolia" or "the stone-throwing devil." In this lively account, Emerson Baker shows how witchcraft hysteria overtook one town and spawned copycat incidents elsewhere in New England, prefiguring the horrors of Salem. In the process, he illuminates a cross-section of colonial society and overturns many popular assumptions about witchcraft in the seventeenth century.
Author : Carol F. Karlsen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 1998-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0393317595
In this work, Carol Karlsen reveals the social construction of witchcraft in 17th century New England and illuminates the larger contours of gender relations in that society. "A pioneering work in . . . the sexual structuring of society. This is not just another book about witchcraft".--Edmund S. Morgan, Yale University.
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Publisher : Douglas Richardson
Page : 2352 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
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ISBN : 1461045134