The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America - Softcover

Demos, John

 
9780679759614: The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0679759611 ISBN 13: 9780679759614
Verlag: Vintage, 1995

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Nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.

The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavoured to "civilize" a "savage" native populace. There, in February 1704, a French and Indian war party descended on the village of Deerfield, abducting a Puritan minister and his children. Although John Williams was eventually released, his daughter horrified the family by staying with her captors and marrying a Mohawk husband.

Out of this incident, The Bancroft Prize-winning historian John Devos has constructed a gripping narrative that opens a window into North America where English, French, and Native Americans faced one another across gilfs of culture and belief, and sometimes crossed over.

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John Putnam Demos is Samuel Knight Professor of History at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony and Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679759611
ISBN 13 
9780679759614
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
336
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