During the course of the seventeenth century, Europeans and Native Americans came together on the western edge of England's North American empire for a variety of purposes, from trading goods and information to making alliances and war. This blurred and constantly shifting frontier region, known as the backcountry, existed just beyond England's imperial reach on the North American mainland. It became an area of opportunity, intrigue, and conflict for the diverse peoples who lived there.
In At the Edge of Empire, Eric Hinderaker and Peter C. Mancall describe the nature of the...
During the course of the seventeenth century, Europeans and Native Americans came together on the western edge of England's North American empire f...
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 ...
