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...
In the first general history of colonial New England to be published in over twenty-five years, Joseph A. Conforti synthesizes current and classic ...
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...
In the first general history of colonial New England to be published in over twenty-five years, Joseph A. Conforti synthesizes current and classic ...
