Between Two Worlds
How the English Became Americans
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 October 2020
- ISBN 9780199672974
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages520 pages
- Size 215x147x28 mm
- Weight 630 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 42 black and white illustrations 56
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Short description:
The transatlantic story of how the English settlers of seventeenth century North America became Americans - from the near-calamitous first settlement at Jamestown in 1607 to the drama of the Salem witch trials.
MoreLong description:
Between Two Worlds is a story teeming with people on the move, making decisions, indulging or resisting their desires and dreams.
In the seventeenth century a quarter of a million men, women, and children left England's shores for America. Some were explorers and merchants, others soldiers and missionaries; many were fugitives from poverty and persecution. All, in their own way, were adventurers, risking their lives and fortunes to make something of themselves overseas. They irrevocably changed the land and indigenous peoples they encountered - and their new world changed them.
But that was only half the story. The plantations established from Maine to the Caribbean needed support at home, especially royal endorsement and money, which made adventurers of English monarchs and investors too. Attitudes to America were crucial, and evolved as the colonies grew in size, prosperity, and self-confidence.
Meanwhile, for those who had crossed the ocean, America forced people to rethink the country in which they had been raised, and to which they remained attached after emigration. In tandem with new ideas about the New World, migrants pondered their English mother country's traditions and achievements, its problems and its uncertain future in an age of war and revolution.
Using hundreds of letters, journals, reports, pamphlets and contemporary books, Between Two Worlds recreates this fascinating transatlantic history - one which has often been neglected or misunderstood on both sides of the Atlantic in the centuries since.
Students and researchers will certainly benefit from reading Between Two Worlds. Gaskill has illuminated a wealth of new evidence about the lives of Americas earliest English settlers...
Table of Contents:
Preface
Prologue: Worlds Collide
Part I: Planters, 1607-1640
Brave Heroic Minds
Earth's Only Paradise
Each Man Shall Have His Share
The Vast and Furious Ocean
Full of Wild Beasts and Wild Men
A City upon a Hill
To Clearer Light and More Liberty
In Darkness and the Shadow of Death
Part II: Saints, 1640-1675
Calamities of our Brethren
Marching Manfully On
Devouring Caterpillars and Gnawing Worms
A Heap of Troubles and Confusion
Have You Better Hearts Than Your Forefathers?
Alas! Our Nehemiahs Are Gone
Part III: Warriors, 1675-1692
Exquisite Torments and Inhumane Barbarities
Juggling Parasites and the Giddy Multitude
A Swarm Out of That Hive
New England Their Native Land
The Little Daughter of New England in America
With Devils and Damned Spirits
Epilogue: New Worlds
Index
Preface
Prologue: Worlds Collide
Part I: Planters, 1607-1640
Brave Heroic Minds
Earth's Only Paradise
Each Man Shall Have His Share
The Vast and Furious Ocean
Full of Wild Beasts and Wild Men
A City upon a Hill
To Clearer Light and More Liberty
In Darkness and the Shadow of Death
Part II: Saints, 1640-1675
Calamities of our Brethren
Marching Manfully On
Devouring Caterpillars and Gnawing Worms
A Heap of Troubles and Confusion
Have You Better Hearts Than Your Forefathers?
Alas! Our Nehemiahs Are Gone
Part III: Warriors, 1675-1692
Exquisite Torments and Inhumane Barbarities
Juggling Parasites and the Giddy Multitude
A Swarm Out of That Hive
New England Their Native Land
The Little Daughter of New England in America
With Devils and Damned Spirits
Epilogue: New Worlds
Index
