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New England's crises and cultural memory : literature, politics, history, religion, 1620-1860 / John McWilliams

Author
McWilliams, John P. (John Probasco)
Published
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 366 pages).
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English.
Contents
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Crisis rhetoric: exclusion in New England history; ASSURANCE, ANXIETY, AND REGIONAL SALVATION; CHAPTER 1 Of corn, no corn, and Christian courage; CHAPTER 2 Thomas Morton: phoenix of New England memory; CHAPTER 3 Trying Anne; Headnote; CHAPTER 4 A cloud of blood: King Philip's War; CHAPTER 5 The axe at the root of the tree: Scarlet Governors and Gray Champions; CHAPTER 6 Race, war, and white magic: the neglected legacy of Salem; Headnote.
Summary
In this magisterial study, McWilliams traces the development of New England's influential cultural identity. He considers a range of writing including George Bancroft's History of the United States, the political essays of Samuel Adams, the fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne and the poetry of Robert Lowell.
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ISBN
9780511211072
0511211074
9780521826839
0521826837
0511212844
9780511212840
0511214650 (electronic bk.)
9780511214653 (electronic bk.)
0511216440 (electronic bk.)
9780511216442 (electronic bk.)
9780511485602 (ebook)
0511485603 (ebook)
1107147042
9781107147041
1280540761
9781280540769
0511327242
9780511327247
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-360) and index.
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