Stray Wives: Marital Conflict in Early National New England 0814740650, 9780814740651

Stray Wives: Marital Conflict in Early National New England 9780814745342

Whereas my husband, Enoch Darling, has at sundry times used me in so improper and cruel a manner, as to destroy my happi

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Household Politics: Conflict in Early Modern England 9780300195170

Early modern English canonical sources and sermons often urge the subordination of women. In Household Politics, Don Her

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Beyond the Farm: National Ambitions in Rural New England 9780812203455

During the first half-century of American independence, a fundamental change in the meaning and morality of ambition eme

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Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England 9781501729508

In 1668 Sarah Ahhaton, a married Native American woman of the Massachusetts Bay town of Punkapoag, confessed in an Engli

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Dissenting Bodies: Corporealities in Early New England 9780231511384

For the Puritan separatists of seventeenth-century New England, "godliness," as manifested by the body, was th

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American Passage: The Communications Frontier in Early New England 9780674735767

Katherine Grandjean shows that the English conquest of New England was not just a matter of consuming territory, of tran

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Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 9780307772978

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Daring Dynasty: Custom, Conflict and Control in Early-Tudor England 152750378X, 9781527503786

He founded perhaps the most famous dynasty in history: the Tudors. Yet, in 1485 when Henry Tudor defeated Richard III to

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New Israel / New England : Jews and Puritans in Early America [1 ed.] 9781613760109, 9781558499065

The New England Puritans' fascination with the legacy of the Jewish religion has been well documented, but their in

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Beyond the Farm : National Ambitions in Rural New England [1 ed.] 9780812203455, 9780812221565

During the first half-century of American independence, a fundamental change in the meaning and morality of ambition eme

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