Between Two Worlds
How the English Became Americans
Between Two Worlds is a story teeming with people on the move, making decisions, indulging or resisting their desires and dreams.In the seventeenth century a quarter of a million men, women, and children left England's shores for America. Some were explorers and merchants, others soldiers and missionaries; many were fugitives from poverty and persecution. All, in their own way, were adventurers, risking their lives and fortunes to make something of themselves overseas. They irrevocably changed the land and indigenous peoples they encountered - and their new world changed them.But that was only half the story. The plantations established from…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-165382-7
- EAN: 9780191653827
- Produktnummer: 17510012
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 480 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 173'244 KB
Über den Autor
Malcolm Gaskill is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. Educated at Cambridge University, he has taught at several UK universities and was formerly Fellow and Director of Studies at Churchill College, Cambridge. An authority on witchcraft and witch-trials, he is the author of numerous books and articles on the social and cultural history of England between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, including Witchcraft: a Very ShortIntroduction (2010), also published by Oxford University Press.
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