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The world of Plymouth Plantation. / Carla Gardina Pestana.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pestana, Carla Gardina, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony).
- Massachusetts--Social life and customs--To 1775.
- Massachusetts.
- Massachusetts--History--New Plymouth, 1620-1691.
- Massachusetts--Relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "On the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing and the establishment of Plymouth Plantation, Carla Gardina Pestana offers an intimate look at life in the settlement. Hardly the isolated outpost of myth, in Pestana's telling Plymouth is revealed as a vibrant place of meeting, with strong connections to the seventeenth-century colonial world"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Beyond Plymouth Plantation
- Looking to a new world: Wives
- Plantation
- Guns
- Bringing the old world: Transients
- Refuge
- Animals
- Meeting and exchanging: Traders
- God
- Tobacco
- Settling into a new life: Escapees
- A new England
- Stockings
- Creating a Community: Servants
- Separatism
- Furs
- Connecting to the Wider World: Privateers
- Kingship
- Books
- Conclusion: Plymouth's World.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780674250802
- 067425080X
- 9780674250826
- 0674250826
- OCLC:
- 1193995850
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