{"product_id":"saints-and-strangers-joseph-a-conforti-9780801882548","title":"Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America","description":"\u003cp\u003eOutstanding Academic Title for 2007, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first general history of colonial New England to be published in over twenty-five years, Joseph A. Conforti synthesizes current and classic scholarship to explore how Puritan saints and \"strangers\" to Puritanism participated in the making of colonial New England. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMassachusetts Governor John Winthrop's famous description of New England as a \"city upon a hill\" has tended to reduce the region's history to an exclusively Pilgrim-Puritan drama, a world of narrow-minded founders, the First Thanksgiving, steepled churches, and the Salem witchcraft trials.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a concise volume aimed at general readers and college students as well as historians, Conforti shows that New England was neither as Puritan nor as insular as most familiar stories imply. As the region evolved into British America's preeminent maritime region, the Atlantic Ocean served as a highway of commercial and cultural encounter, connecting white English settlers to different races and religious communities of the transatlantic world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Puritan elect--but also Natives, African slaves, and non-Puritan white settlers--became active participants in the creation of colonial New England. Conforti discusses how these subcommunities of white, red, and black strangers to Protestant piety retained their own cultures, coexisted, and even thrived within and beyond the domains of Puritan settlement, creating tensions and pressure points in the later development of early America. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph A. Conforti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801882540\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801882548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.58h x 5.44w x 0.57d","brand":"Joseph A. Conforti","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926140485887,"sku":"9780801882548","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_3a186faa-ca0c-45fa-b5f2-d1ce79f86ab6.jpg?v=1681081425","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/saints-and-strangers-joseph-a-conforti-9780801882548","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}