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Saints and strangers : New England in British North America / Joseph A. Conforti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conforti, Joseph A.
- Series:
- Regional perspectives on early America.
- Regional perspectives on early America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Puritans--New England--History.
- Puritans.
- New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- New England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- City upon a hill
- Native New England : from precontact to colonial beginnings
- Puritan New England, 1620-1660
- Beyond Puritan New England : profane, maritime and dissenting borderlands
- New England besieged, 1660-1700
- Saints and strangers in the eighteenth century
- Provincial New England : the eighteenth-century empire of liberty, commerce, and Protestantism
- From the city upon a hill to Plymouth Rock.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-227) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-8915-4
- OCLC:
- 923192373
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