The World Of John Winthrop

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When John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, emigrated from Stuart England to America, he and the colonists who accompanied him carried much of their culture with them. Written by leading English and American scholars, the essays in The World of John Winthrop: England and New England, 1588-1649 vigorously assert a new unity to the transatlantic and Puritan, Anglo-American sphere, integrating the English and colonial stories from a refreshingly single perspective. Contributors: Tom Webster (University of Edinburgh) * Mark A. Peterson (University of Iowa) * David D. Hall (Harvard Divinity School) * Alexandra Walsham (University of Exeter) * Alden Vaughan (Columbia University) * Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University) * Richard J. Ross (University of Illinois) * James S. Hart (University of Oklahoma) * Richard Godbeer (University of Miami) * Mark Valeri (Union Theological Seminary of Virginia) * Lyn Botelho (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) * Francis J. Bremer (Millersville University of Pennsylvania)

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Francis J. Bremer
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Release : 2005
File : 424 Pages
ISBN-13 : UVA:X004995391


John Winthrop S World

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As both a politician and a historian, Winthrop was an interpreter of foundational events in American history. Within his journal, therefore, lie resources for understanding the nature of leadership and the meaning of liberty in our past. Because of the ongoing Puritan legacy in American culture, Winthrop's journal may show us our own world, and possibly our future, in new ways. - Introduction.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : James G. Moseley
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release : 1992
File : 206 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0299135349


John Winthrop

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Providing a path-breaking treatment of the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Bremer explores the life of America's forgotten Founding Father. 18 halftones & line illustrations.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Francis J. Bremer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Release : 2005
File : 516 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0195179811


Life And Letters Of John Winthrop

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Genre : Massachusetts
Author : Robert Charles Winthrop
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Release : 1864
File : 496 Pages
ISBN-13 : OXFORD:N10632557


John Winthrop Oliver Cromwell And The Land Of Promise

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Looks at how the lives of John Winthrop, governor of Massachusetts, and Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Puritan Commonwealth in England, were intertwined at a time of conflict between church and state and between Native and European Americans.

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Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Author : Marc Aronson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release : 2004
File : 232 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0618181776


Life And Letters Of John Winthrop Governor Of The Massachusetts Bay Company At Their Emigration To New England

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Genre : History
Author : Robert Charles Winthrop
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Release : 1867
File : 506 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOMDLP:aja2057:0002.001


The Wonders Of The World

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Genre : Curiosities and wonders
Author : C. C. Rosenberg
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Release : 1882
File : 510 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCLA:31158012336532


Between Two Worlds

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In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants -- entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike -- faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away. In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to leave their mark on the New World, they were forced -- by hardship and hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate battles with Indians -- to innovate and adapt or perish. As later generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward rebellion and, finally, independence

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Genre : History
Author : Malcolm Gaskill
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release : 2014-11-11
File : 512 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780465080861


The Journal Of John Winthrop 1630 1649

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For 350 years Governor John Winthrop's journal has been recognized as the central source for the history of Massachusetts in the 1630s and 1640s. Winthrop reported events--especially religious and political events--more fully and more candidly than any other contemporary observer. The governor's journal has been edited and published three times since 1790, but these editions are long outmoded. Richard Dunn and Laetitia Yeandle have now prepared a long-awaited scholarly edition, complete with introduction, notes, and appendices. This full-scale, unabridged edition uses the manuscript volumes of the first and third notebooks (both carefully preserved at the Massachusetts Historical Society), retaining their spelling and punctuation, and James Savage's transcription of the middle notebook (accidentally destroyed in 1825). Winthrop's narrative began as a journal and evolved into a history. As a dedicated Puritan convert, Winthrop decided to emigrate to America in 1630 with members of the Massachusetts Bay Company, who had chosen him as their governor. Just before sailing, he began a day-to-day account of his voyage. He continued his journal when he reached Massachusetts, at first making brief and irregular entries, followed by more frequent writing sessions and contemporaneous reporting, and finally, from 1643 onward, engaging in only irregular writing sessions and retrospective reporting. Naturally he found little good to say about such outright adversaries as Thomas Morton, Roger Williams, and Anne Hutchinson. Yet he was also adept at thrusting barbs at most of the other prominent players: John Endecott, Henry Vane, and Richard Saltonstall, among others. Winthrop built lasting significance into the seemingly small-scale actions of a few thousand colonists in early New England, which is why his journal will remain an important historical source.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : John Winthrop
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Release : 2009-06-01
File : 862 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0674034384


Life And Letters Of John Winthrop From 1630 To 1649

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Author : Robert Charles Winthrop
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Release : 1867
File : 522 Pages
ISBN-13 : OXFORD:600027980