Saints and Strangers : New England in British North America
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Description
In the first general history of colonial New England to be published in over twenty-five years, Joseph A. Conforti synthesizes current and classic scholarship to explore how Puritan saints and "strangers" to Puritanism participated in the making of colonial New England.
Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop's famous description of New England as a "city upon a hill" has tended to reduce the region's history to an exclusively Pilgrim-Puritan drama, a world of narrow-minded founders, the First Thanksgiving, steepled churches, and the Salem witchcraft trials.
In a concise volume aimed at general readers and college students as well as historians, Conforti shows that New England was neither as Puritan nor as insular as most familiar stories imply. As the region evolved into British America's preeminent maritime region, the Atlantic Ocean served as a highway of commercial and cultural encounter, connecting white English settlers to different races and religious communities of the transatlantic world.
ISBN
978-0801882548
Publication Date
12-5-2005
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
City
Baltimore
Keywords
New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Disciplines
United States History
Recommended Citation
Conforti, Joseph A. Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
