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Abandoning America Life-stories from early New England 1st Edition

Author(s)

Susan Hardman Moore

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781782041245, 9781783271412, 9781843838173, 9781782047278

Publisher

Boydell Press

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PDF and EPUB

Description

In a field where primary sources are thin and difficult, Abandoning America is an excellent tool for reference and research. The book is fully annotated and offers a substantial introduction providing for further historicalcontext.

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Abandoning America brings together the biographies of hundreds of people who crossed over to New England in the 1630s but later braved the Atlantic again to return home. Some wentback quickly, disenchanted or discouraged. Many invested everything to make New England a success, yet after ten or twenty years resolved to leave America – against a backdrop of civil war and Cromwell’s commonwealth in England, and personal dilemmas about family ties, health and prospects. The book retrieves their forgotten life-stories from thousands of scattered fragments of evidence in early New England records and British archives, often starting fromsome incidental, passing, reference. The result of this scholarly detective work is a remarkable and evocative collection of personal histories, of people overlooked in the onward march of American history. Their anxieties and aspirations speak eloquently about the experience of being a New Englander, for those who stayed on as well as for those who left.
The book traces settlers’ lives with an eye to the information historians look for. It is a richoriginal resource for scholars of early America and the English Revolution – for research on religion in England and New England, Atlantic migration, and much more.

Susan Hardman Moore is from the School of Divinity atthe University of Edinburgh.

Availability: In Stock

Abandoning America Life-stories from early New England 1st Edition

SKU: 9781782047278

Original price was: $19.95.Current price is: $4.99.

Access Abandoning America Life-stories from early New England 1st Edition Now. Discount up to 90%

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Additional information

Full Title

Abandoning America Life-stories from early New England 1st Edition

Author(s)

Susan Hardman Moore

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781782047278, 9781783271412, 9781843838173, 9781782041245

Publisher

Boydell Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

In a field where primary sources are thin and difficult, Abandoning America is an excellent tool for reference and research. The book is fully annotated and offers a substantial introduction providing for further historicalcontext.

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Abandoning America brings together the biographies of hundreds of people who crossed over to New England in the 1630s but later braved the Atlantic again to return home. Some wentback quickly, disenchanted or discouraged. Many invested everything to make New England a success, yet after ten or twenty years resolved to leave America – against a backdrop of civil war and Cromwell’s commonwealth in England, and personal dilemmas about family ties, health and prospects. The book retrieves their forgotten life-stories from thousands of scattered fragments of evidence in early New England records and British archives, often starting fromsome incidental, passing, reference. The result of this scholarly detective work is a remarkable and evocative collection of personal histories, of people overlooked in the onward march of American history. Their anxieties and aspirations speak eloquently about the experience of being a New Englander, for those who stayed on as well as for those who left.
The book traces settlers’ lives with an eye to the information historians look for. It is a richoriginal resource for scholars of early America and the English Revolution – for research on religion in England and New England, Atlantic migration, and much more.

Susan Hardman Moore is from the School of Divinity atthe University of Edinburgh.