{"product_id":"from-a-far-country-catharine-randall-9780820338200","title":"From a Far Country: Camisards and Huguenots in the Atlantic World","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFrom a Far Country\u003c\/i\u003e Catharine Randall examines Huguenots and their less-known cousins the Camisards, offering a fresh perspective on the important role these French Protestants played in settling the New World. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Camisard religion was marked by more ecstatic expression than that of the Huguenots, not unlike differences between Pentecostals and Protestants. Both groups were persecuted and emigrated in large numbers, becoming participants in the broad circulation of ideas that characterized the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Randall vividly portrays this French Protestant diaspora through the lives of three figures: Gabriel Bernon, who led a Huguenot exodus to Massachusetts and moved among the commercial elite; Ez chiel Carr , a Camisard who influenced Cotton Mather's theology; and Elie Neau, a Camisard-influenced writer and escaped galley slave who established North America's first school for blacks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike other French Protestants, these men were adaptable in their religious views, a quality Randall points out as quintessentially American. In anthropological terms they acted as code shifters who manipulated multiple cultures. While this malleability ensured that French Protestant culture would not survive in externally recognizable terms in the Americas, Randall shows that the culture's impact was nonetheless considerable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Catharine Randall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820338206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820338200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d","brand":"Catharine Randall","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059868299519,"sku":"9780820338200","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4da7ab14-5da0-4433-bf68-4ad89be0a369.jpg?v=1685060791","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/from-a-far-country-catharine-randall-9780820338200","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}