Pilgrims
Subtitle: New World Settlers and the Call of Home
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: February 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780300117189
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Social history; c 1600 to c 1700; Massachusetts - Local History; U.S. History - Colonial Period (1607-1775); History; History - General History; History - U.S.; History: American; Northeastern & North Atlantic states; Emigration & Immigration; Europe - Great Britain - General; General; United States - Colonial Period; History / General; United States - State & Local - New England; 17th century; Congregationalism; England; Immigrants; New England
Description: This book uncovers what might seem to be a dark side of the American dream: the New World from the viewpoint of those who decided not to stay. At the core of the volume are the life histories of people who left New England during the British Civil Wars and Interregnum, 1640-1660. More than a third of the ministers who had stirred up emigration from England deserted their flocks to return home. The colonists' stories challenge our perceptions of early settlement and the religious ideal of New England as a "City on a Hill." America was a stage in their journey, not an end in itself.-publisher's description.