Publication

1997 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

58,000 words, Guess

Page Count

232 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-10052144764X
  • ISBN-139780521447645
  • LibraryThing301502
  • OCLC Control Number42210704
  • Better World Books9780521447645
and 1 more

Description

Even though New England attracted fewer emigrants from England than any other major region in colonial British America, New Englanders insisted that the origins of their society lay in a "Great Migration." Why they should have made such a paradoxical -- yet, for American culture, portentous -- claim is the concern of New England's Generation. Through analyses of the process of migration and settlement and of the symbolic meaning that participants attached to their experiences, the book tells the story of New England's origins as one of dynamism and change. Focusing on the lives of nearly 700 emigrants, the narrative examines such topics as the settlers' motives for leaving England, their experience of the voyage, their patterns of settlement in the New World, and their search for economic security in a new land. - Back cover.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryPuritansImmigrantsCivilizationNew england, civilizationEmigration and immigrationGreat britain, emigration and immigration

Times

Other Editions

  • New England's generation: the great migration and the formation of society and culture in the seventeenth centuryPaperbackCambridge University Press1997-01-01

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