Margaret Manchester

Puritan Family and Community in the English Atlantic World

Being "Much Afflicted with Conscience"

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Produktbeschreibung

Puritan Family and Community in the English Atlantic World examines the dynamics of marriage, family, and community life during the "Great Migration" through the microhistorical study of one puritan family in 1638 Rhode Island.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9781032092355
• ISBN-10: 1032092351
• Artikelnr.: 62148718

Autorenporträt

Margaret Murányi Manchester is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Providence College, USA. She teaches courses on US history, American women's history, and diplomatic history. Her current research revisits a spy story involving in Cold War Hungary.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Verins--A Family "Much Afflicted with Conscience";
Chapter 1: "Gone to New England for Conscience Sake": Family History as New
England History; Chapter 2: "Piety Tempers Patriarchy": Women of Conscience
in the English Atlantic World; Chapter 3: "Forced Worship Stinks in God's
Nostrils": Government, Law, and Liberty of Conscience in Puritan New
England; Conclusion: Women of Obstinate Faith