Abandoning America
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Abandoning America

Life-stories from early New England

  1. 440 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Abandoning America

Life-stories from early New England

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Boydell Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781783271412
eBook ISBN
9781782041245
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Frontcover
  2. Contents
  3. Illustrations
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Map: 'The South part of New-England, as it is Plated this yeare, 1634'
  7. Map: New England, c. 1660
  8. Timeline
  9. Introduction
  10. Life-stories from early New England
  11. Appendix 1: Settlers leaving New England before 1640
  12. Appendix 2: Settlers visiting England, 1640-1660
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index
  15. Backcover