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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      24 January 2011
      30 August 1991
      ISBN:
      9780511811920
      9780521447645
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511811920
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.37kg, 248 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History, Colonial American History
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    Through analyses of the process of migration and settlement and of the symbolic meaning that participants attached to their experiences, this book tells the story of New England's origins as one of dynamism and change. Focusing on the lives of nearly seven-hundred 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. The descendants of the founders erected the story of their 'great' migration into early British America's only effective foundation myth - a record of achievement that succeeding generations could never match. Rich in detail and insight, this exploration of New England's founding examines both the lives of ordinary people and the transcendent meanings that those lives ultimately acquired.

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    ‘As the title suggests, this is a scholarly book, yet there’s much here to interest general readers of American history. Anderson’s mission is to examine the reasons for the stability of early New England.’

    Source: Providence Journal

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