Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America
by T. H. Breen
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This collection of essays is concerned with two main issues: first, the way in which the local origins of English colonists influenced their attitudes and adaptation to North America; and second, the contrast between the settlements of Massachusetts and Virginia.Tags
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Award-winning historian T.H. Breen has written extensively on the American Revolution. Recent works include The Marketplace of Revolution and American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People. He is currently the William Smith Mason Professor of American History Emeritus at Northwestern University and the James Marsh show more Professor-at-Large at the University of Vermont. show less
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- Canonical title
- Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America
- Alternate titles
- Puritans and Adventurers
- Original publication date
- 1980
- Important places
- Colonial America; Virginia Colony; Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Dedication
- For Three Teachers: Edmund S. Morgan, J. H. Hexter, and John Morton Blum
- First words
- These essays -- two of which are published here for the first time -- explore the origins and subsequent development of quite different early American cultures, Massachusetts and Virginia. [Introduction]
Several essays in this collection had already been published when I began to write this piece. [Introduction to first essay]
The purpose of this investigation is to reconsider the relationship between ideas and institutions in seventeenth-century New England. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The state was no longer the center of economic growth. It's future lay in the past -- in a Golden Age -- and Virginians flocked west in search of the nature that their own state had once promised but no longer possessed.
- Original language
- English
Classifications
- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
- DDC/MDS
- 974.4 — History & geography History of North America Northeastern United States (New England and Middle Atlantic states) Massachusetts
- LCC
- F67 .B83 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history Massachusetts
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