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Book The Trials of Thomas Morton

Download or read book The Trials of Thomas Morton written by Peter C. Mancall and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “magisterial history” presents a new perspective on Thomas Morton, his colonial philosophy, and his lengthy feud with the Puritans (Wall Street Journal). Adding new depth to our understanding of early New England society, this riveting account of Thomas Morton explores the tensions that arose from competing colonial visions. A lawyer and fur trader, Thomas Morton dreamed of a society where Algonquian peoples and English colonists could coexist. Infamous for dancing around a maypole in defiance of his Pilgrim neighbors, Morton was reviled by the Puritans for selling guns to the Natives. Colonial authorities exiled him three separate times from New England, but Morton kept returning to fight for his beliefs. This compelling counter-narrative to the familiar story of the Puritans combines a rich understanding of the period with a close reading of early texts to bring the contentious Morton to life. This volume sheds new light on the tumultuous formative decades of the American experience.

Book The Barbarous Years

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  • Author : Bernard Bailyn
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2013-08-13
  • ISBN : 0375703462
  • Pages : 642 pages

Download or read book The Barbarous Years written by Bernard Bailyn and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize A compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard. The immigrants were a mixed multitude. They came from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden, and Finland, and they moved to the western hemisphere for different reasons, from different social backgrounds and cultures. They represented a spectrum of religious attachments. In the early years, their stories are not mainly of triumph but of confusion, failure, violence, and the loss of civility as they sought to normalize situations and recapture lost worlds. It was a thoroughly brutal encounter—not only between the Europeans and native peoples and between Europeans and Africans, but among Europeans themselves, as they sought to control and prosper in the new configurations of life that were emerging around them.

Book Missionary Conquest

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  • Author : George E. Tinker
  • Publisher : Fortress Press
  • Release : 1993-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781451408409
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Missionary Conquest written by George E. Tinker and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating probe into U.S. mission history spotlights four cases: Junipero Serra, the Franciscan whose mission to California natives has made him a candidate for sainthood; John Eliot, the renowned Puritan missionary to Massachusetts Indians; Pierre-Jean De Smet, the Jesuit missioner to the Indians of the Midwest; and Henry Benjamin Whipple, who engineered the U.S. government's theft of the Black Hills from the Sioux.

Book Saints   Strangers

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  • Author : George F. Willison
  • Publisher : Transaction Publishers
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 1412818257
  • Pages : 525 pages

Download or read book Saints Strangers written by George F. Willison and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945.

Book The History and Antiquities of the City of Boston

Download or read book The History and Antiquities of the City of Boston written by Samuel G. Drake and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dominion and Civility

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  • Author : Michael Leroy Oberg
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-08-06
  • ISBN : 150172925X
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book Dominion and Civility written by Michael Leroy Oberg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was the relationship between English settlers and Native Americans in the New World destined to turn tragic? This book investigates how the newcomers interacted with Algonquian groups in the Chesapeake Bay area and New England, describing the role that original Americans occupied in England's empire during the critical first century of contact. Michael Leroy Oberg considers the history of Anglo-Indian relations in transatlantic context while viewing the frontier as a zone where neither party had the upper hand. He tells how the English pursued three sets of policies in America—securing profit for their sponsors, making lands safe from both European and native enemies, and "civilizing" the Indians—and explains why the British settlers found it impossible to achieve all of these goals. Oberg places the history of Anglo-Indian relations in the early Chesapeake and New England in a broad transatlantic context while drawing parallels with subsequent efforts by England as well as its imperial rivals—the French, Dutch, and Spanish—to plant colonies in America. Dominion and Civility promises to broaden our understanding of the exchange between Europeans and Indians and makes an important contribution to the emerging history of the English Atlantic world.

Book Index of articles upon American local history

Download or read book Index of articles upon American local history written by Appleton Prentiss Clark Griffin and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Settling the Good Land

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  • Author : Agnès Delahaye
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2020-07-13
  • ISBN : 9004435212
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Settling the Good Land written by Agnès Delahaye and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the settlement project of the Massachusetts Bay Company in early New England. this book offers a critical reading of the settler history of its first governor, John Winthrop.

Book Bibliographies of Special Subjects

Download or read book Bibliographies of Special Subjects written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book This Land Is Their Land

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  • Author : David J. Silverman
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2019-11-05
  • ISBN : 1632869268
  • Pages : 529 pages

Download or read book This Land Is Their Land written by David J. Silverman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn, the English gathered their first successful harvest and lifted the specter of starvation. Ousamequin and 90 of his men then visited Plymouth for the “First Thanksgiving.” The treaty remained operative until King Philip's War in 1675, when 50 years of uneasy peace between the two parties would come to an end. 400 years after that famous meal, historian David J. Silverman sheds profound new light on the events that led to the creation, and bloody dissolution, of this alliance. Focusing on the Wampanoag Indians, Silverman deepens the narrative to consider tensions that developed well before 1620 and lasted long after the devastating war-tracing the Wampanoags' ongoing struggle for self-determination up to this very day. This unsettling history reveals why some modern Native people hold a Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving, a holiday which celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States. This Land is Their Land shows that it is time to rethink how we, as a pluralistic nation, tell the history of Thanksgiving.

Book Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society

Download or read book Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society written by Massachusetts Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mayflower in Britain

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  • Author : Graham Taylor
  • Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
  • Release : 2020-08-15
  • ISBN : 1445692309
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book The Mayflower in Britain written by Graham Taylor and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower, Graham Taylor focuses on the ship's place in British history and its fascinating history tied to the city of London.

Book Catalogue of the Public Library of the City of Fall River

Download or read book Catalogue of the Public Library of the City of Fall River written by Fall River Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London  Continued to 1993

Download or read book The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London Continued to 1993 written by Royal College of Physicians of London and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History and Antiquities of Boston     from Its Settlement in 1630  to the Year 1700  Also  an Introductory History of the Discovery and Settlement of New England  Etc

Download or read book The History and Antiquities of Boston from Its Settlement in 1630 to the Year 1700 Also an Introductory History of the Discovery and Settlement of New England Etc written by Samuel Gardner DRAKE and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: