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Book Three Visitors to Early Plymouth

Download or read book Three Visitors to Early Plymouth written by John Pory and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Visitors to Early Plymouth stands as an intricate tapestry of narratives, each contributing to a rich portrayal of early American settlement life through the varying prisms of its authors. This collection captures a momentous period in history with eloquent diversity, ranging from detailed epistolary accounts to vivid firsthand descriptions. It serves not only as a historical document but also as a testament to the varied literary styles of the early 17th century. The anthology makes significant strides in illustrating the complexities of early colonial life, setting a precedent in the study of American history and literature by focusing on the collective experiences detailed within rather than individual notoriety. The contributing authors, John Pory, Emmanuel Altham, and Isaack de Rasieres, bring forth a multifaceted perspective rooted in their unique backgrounds and experiences. Each author's contribution reflects significant historical and cultural movements of their time, offering readers an immersive dive into the early colonial era. Their collective works underscore the importance of cross-cultural exchanges and the nuances of early American settlement life, enriching our understanding of the socio-historical landscape that shaped the New World. Three Visitors to Early Plymouth is recommended for readers seeking to immerse themselves in the depth of early American history through the lens of diverse literary styles and viewpoints. This collection offers an unparalleled opportunity to explore the intricacies of colonial life, fostering a greater appreciation for the historical and literary richness of the period. Readers are invited to delve into the anthology for its educational value, its comprehensive insights, and the engaging dialogue it prompts between the epoch and todays world.

Book Three Visitors to Early Plymouth

Download or read book Three Visitors to Early Plymouth written by Emmanuel Altham and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1997-06 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters from three visitors to the Plymouth Settlement from England, Virginia, and New Amsterdam. Each wrote letters home about what he saw, observing the people, the natural setting, and the community. A fascinating objective view of colonial Plymouth.

Book Three Visitors to Early Plymouth

Download or read book Three Visitors to Early Plymouth written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pilgrims

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  • Author : Garrett Buhl Robinson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-07-04
  • ISBN : 9781957116020
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Pilgrims written by Garrett Buhl Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pilgrims is an epic poem portraying the dramatic events transpiring between 1620 and 1627 with the settlement of Plymouth Colony. The poem consists of 76 chapters and an epilogue with over 10,000 lines composed in heroic quatrains. Table of Contents - 1620 - 1. Elder William Brewster's Sermon 2. The Belligerent Sailor 3. Sea Burial 4. The Broken Beam 5. Man Overboard 6. Land Ho! 7. The Mayflower Compact 8. First Expedition 9. Second Expedition 10. Interval 11. Keg of Powder 12. Third Expedition - 1621 - 13. Building the Town / Billington's Sea 14. The Rendezvous 15. The Great Sickness 16. Military Orders 17. Samoset 18. Samoset Returns 19. Spring 20. Massasoit Ousamequin 21. Tisquantum Teaches 22. The Mayflower's Departure 23. John Carver 24. Memorial 25. The Town's Election 26. First Pilgrim Marriage at Plymouth 27. Envoy to Ousamequin 28. Journey to Nauset 29. The Shadow of Sachem Corbitant 30. Envoy to the Massachusetts 31. The First Thanksgiving 32. Fortune 33. Weston's Letter 34. The Governor's House - 1622 - 35. The Narragansett Threat 36. Fortification and Drill 37. Envoy to the Massachusetts Delayed 38. Tisquantum's Accusations 39. Tisquantum's Deception Exposed 40. Saving Tisquantum / Ousamequin's Demand 41. The Sparrow's Shallop 42. Thomas Weston's Deception 43. More Rationing 44. The Meetinghouse 45. Charity 46. Strength in Weakness 47. Discovery 48. Thankless Giving 49. The Shoals 50. Tisquantum, the Passing of a Friend 51. Returning from the Shoals - 1623 - 52. Weston's Settlement Fractures 53. Visit to Sowams 54. Guests of Sachem Corbitant 55. Hobomock Reveals the Plot against the Pilgrims 56. Captain Standish Rescues Weston's Men 57. An Unexpected Visitor 58. Private Enterprise 59. The Courage to Carry On 60. The Anne's Arrival 61. Reaching an Agreement at the Town Meeting 62. Wedding Day 63. Negotiating Wages for the Crew of the Little James 64. A Visit from the Governor General 65. The Great Fire - 1624 - 66. Annual Elections 67. Winslow's Return 68. Plymouth Council / Oldham's Confession 69. Hopes and Joys 70. John Lyford 71. For One and All 72. The Trial 73. Constantly Inconstant 74. Raising the Pinnace - 1625 - 75. John Oldham Returns 76. Gaining Independence - Epilogue - 1626 and 1627 Appendixes 1. Mayflower Compact 2. "The names of those which came over first" from William Bradford's Of Plimoth Plantation 3. Maps

Book Good Newes from New England

Download or read book Good Newes from New England written by Edward Winslow and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's earliest books and one of the most important early Pilgrim tracts to come from American colonies. This book helped persuade others to come join those who already came to Plymouth.

Book History of Plymouth Plantation  1620 1647

Download or read book History of Plymouth Plantation 1620 1647 written by William Bradford and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New English Canaan of Thomas Morton

Download or read book New English Canaan of Thomas Morton written by Thomas Morton and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Early Visions and Representations of America

Download or read book Early Visions and Representations of America written by M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Europeans first arrived in America, they had a number of preconceptions, prejudices, expectations and hopes about what life in the New World would be like. This book examines the different visions and representations of America conveyed in the writings of Spanish conquistador Á?lvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and the Pilgrim leader William Bradford, taking both writers within their respective literary and historical contexts. Anthologies of American literature have consistently ignored Spanish-language achievements on the grounds of a restrictive interpretation of American literature based on linguistic boundaries. Consequently, Spanish-language texts such as Cabeza de Vaca's or the account by the Hidalgo de Elvas, to name but two examples, have been marginalized in the narrative of American literary history. In seeking to redress this neglect, Galisteo contributes to scholarship which seeks to analyze Early America as a whole, including not only Anglo American perspectives but also the Spanish American aspect of the colonization process.

Book The Worlds of the Seventeenth Century Hudson Valley

Download or read book The Worlds of the Seventeenth Century Hudson Valley written by Jaap Jacobs and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth introduction to the issues involved in the expansion of European interests to the Hudson River Valley, the cultural interaction that took place there, and the colonization of the region. Written in accessible language by leading scholars, these essays incorporate the latest historical insights as they explore the new world in which American Indians and Europeans interacted, the settlement of the Dutch colony that ensued from the exploration of the Hudson River, and the development of imperial and other networks which came to incorporate the Hudson Valley.

Book The Skulking Way of War

Download or read book The Skulking Way of War written by Patrick M. Malone and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Title: The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations. With a Life of the Author by the Editor, Robert Southey ... Volume: 14 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1837 Original Publisher: Baldwin and Cradock Subjects: Literary Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Notes: This is an OCR reprint of the original rare book. There may be typos or missing text and there are no illustrations. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

Book Conversing by Signs

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  • Author : Robert Blair St. George
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780807846889
  • Pages : 486 pages

Download or read book Conversing by Signs written by Robert Blair St. George and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people of colonial New England lived in a metaphoric landscape, beset with superstition and fear of dangers, real and imagined, seen and unseen. According to folklorist Robert St. George, meaning was layered, often indirect, and inextricably intertwined with memory, apprehension, and imagination. Understanding their "language" is essential to appreciating their history. 134 illustrations.

Book The Times of Their Lives

Download or read book The Times of Their Lives written by James Deetz and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2001-10-16 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The utterly absorbing real story of the lives of the Pilgrims, whose desires and foibles may be more recognizable to us than they first appear. Americans have been schooled to believe that their forefathers, the Pilgrims, were somber, dark-clad, pure-of-heart figures who conceived their country on the foundation of piety, hard work, and the desire to live simply and honestly. But the truth is far from the portrait painted by decades of historians. They wore brightly colored clothing, often drank heavily, believed in witches, had premarital sex and adulterous affairs, and committed petty and serious crimes against their neighbors in surprisingly high numbers. Beginning by debunking the numerous myths that surround the landing of the Mayflower and the first Thanksgiving, James Deetz and Patricia Scott Deetz lead us through court transcripts, wills, probate listings, and rare firsthand accounts, as well as archaeological finds, to reveal the true story of life in colonial America.

Book Faith and Boundaries

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  • Author : David J. Silverman
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2005-04-04
  • ISBN : 9780521842808
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Faith and Boundaries written by David J. Silverman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was indeed possible for Indians and Europeans to live peacefully in early America and for Indians to survive as distinct communities. Faith and Boundaries uses the story of Martha's Vineyard Wampanoags to examine how. On an island marked by centralized English authority, missionary commitment, and an Indian majority, the Wampanoags' adaptation to English culture, especially Christianity, checked violence while safeguarding their land, community, and ironically, even customs. Yet the colonists' exploitation of Indian land and labor exposed the limits of Christian fellowship and thus hardened racial division. The Wampanoags learned about race through this rising bar of civilization - every time they met demands to reform, colonists moved the bar higher until it rested on biological difference. Under the right circumstances, like those on Martha's Vineyard, religion could bridge wide difference between the peoples of early America, but its transcendent power was limited by the divisiveness of race.

Book Terror to the Wicked

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  • Author : Tobey Pearl
  • Publisher : Pantheon
  • Release : 2021-03-16
  • ISBN : 1101871725
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book Terror to the Wicked written by Tobey Pearl and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little-known moment in colonial history that changed the course of America’s future. A riveting account of a brutal killing, an all-out manhunt, and the first murder trial in America, set against the backdrop of the Pequot War (between the Pequot tribe and the colonists of Massachusetts Bay) that ended this two-year war and brought about a peace that allowed the colonies to become a nation. The year: 1638. The setting: Providence, near Plymouth Colony. A young Nipmuc tribesman returning home from trading beaver pelts is fatally stabbed in a robbery in the woods near Plymouth Colony by a vicious white runaway indentured servant. The tribesman, fighting for his life, is able with his final breaths to reveal the details of the attack to Providence’s governor, Roger Williams. A frantic manhunt by the fledgling government ensues to capture the killer and his gang, now the most hunted men in the New World. With their capture, the two-year-old Plymouth Colony faces overnight its first trial—a murder trial—with Plymouth’s governor presiding as judge and prosecutor,interviewing witnesses and defendants alike, and Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony authority, as overseer of the courtroom, his sidearm at the ready. The jury—Plymouth colonists, New England farmers (“a rude and ignorant sorte,” as described by former governor William Bradford)—white, male, picked from a total population of five hundred and fifty, knows from past persecutions the horrors of a society without a jury system. Would they be tempted to protect their own—including a cold-blooded murderer who was also a Pequot War veteran—over the life of a tribesman who had fought in a war allied against them? Tobey Pearl brings to vivid life those caught up in the drama: Roger Williams, founder of Plymouth Colony, a self-taught expert in indigenous cultures and the first investigator of the murder; Myles Standish; Edward Winslow, a former governor of Plymouth Colony and the master of the indentured servant and accused murderer; John Winthrop, governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony; the men on trial for the murder; and the lone tribesman, from the last of the Woodland American Indians, whose life was brutally taken from him. Pearl writes of the witnesses who testified before the court and of the twelve colonists on the jury who went about their duties with grave purpose, influenced by a complex mixture of Puritan religious dictates, lingering medieval mores, new ideals of humanism, and an England still influenced by the last gasp of the English Renaissance. And she shows how, in the end, the twelve came to render a groundbreaking judicial decision that forever set the standard for American justice. An extraordinary work of historical piecing-together; a moment that set the precedence of our basic, fundamental right to trial by jury, ensuring civil liberties and establishing it as a safeguard against injustice.

Book Protestant Empires

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ulinka Rublack
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-09-10
  • ISBN : 1108841619
  • Pages : 375 pages

Download or read book Protestant Empires written by Ulinka Rublack and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through its wide geographical and chronological scope, Protestant Empires advances a novel perspective on the nature and impact of the Protestant Reformations.

Book Creatures of Empire

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  • Author : Virginia DeJohn Anderson
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780195304466
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Creatures of Empire written by Virginia DeJohn Anderson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Review