The Rainborowes
Subtitle: one family's quest to build a new England
By: Adrian Tinniswood
Publisher: Basic Books, a Member of the Perseus Books Group
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780465023004
Subjects: Merchants; Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony); Biography; History
Description: The period between 1630 and 1660 was one of the most tumultuous in Western history, witnessing the birth of New England and, in the mother country, a chaotic civil war that rent the very fabric of English social, political, and religious life. At the center of this turbulent time was an outsized family: the Rainborowes. Shipmasters and soldiers, entrepreneurs and idealists, they bridged two worlds as they struggled to forge a better future for themselves and their kin.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-347) and index.
Table of contents: title: Begin Thy doom. Between worlds and worlds ; That proud city ; Whom shall we send? ; Such an enemy we have ; From Afric shore ; In freedom equal ; Safe toward Canaan ; Better Thou belong ; Dispersed in foreign lands; title: Translated saints. Hard liberty ; They on the trading flood ; The brandished sword of God ; War then, war ; And get themselves a name ; This avenging sword ; By battery, scale, and mine; title: The end of what we are. The wasteful deep ; My sect Thou seest ; Of rebel angels ; War in Heaven and battle proud ; The great consult began ; Disobedience ; In mutiny ; The rebel king ; The dire event ; Loud lament and furious rage ; My other self ; Their solitary way ; A land and times obscure.