Enemies of the Bay Colony : Puritan Massachusetts and its foes / Philip Ranlet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ranlet, Philip, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Biography.

Massachusetts.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

332 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2006.

Summary:

Enemies of the Bay Colony offers a narrative history of Puritan New England from its beginnings through the Great Awakening of the mid-eighteenth century. This newly expanded and revised edition features two new chapters on the Salem Witchcraft frenzy of 1692 and an account of the Pequot War and the death of Narragansett sachem, Miantonomo. In addition to the two new chapters, Enemies of the Bay Colony has been updated to include recent scholarship.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Resurgence of the Puritans 1

Chapter 2 Thomas Morton of Merry Mount 7

Chapter 3 Anne Hutchinson 23

Chapter 4 Miantonomo 35

Chapter 5 Samuel Maverick 59

Chapter 6 King Philip 81

Chapter 7 Sir Edmund Andros 109

Chapter 8 Satan 145

Chapter 9 Joseph Dudley 173

Chapter 10 Benjamin Colman 211

Appendix 1 Philip's Name: A Cottage Industry 247

Appendix 2 Who Was Philip's Father? 249

Appendix 3 The PC Indian 255.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-321) and index.

ISBN:

0761834869

OCLC:

70293154

Publisher Number:

9780761834861