New England's generation : the great migration and the formation of society and culture in the seventeenth century / / Virginia DeJohn Anderson [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNISA996247970603316
• Autore: Anderson Virginia DeJohn
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1991
• ISBN: 0-511-09802-2; 0-511-81192-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 232 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 974.02
• Soggetti: Immigrants - New England - History - 17th century; Puritans - New England - History - 17th century; New England Civilization 17th century; England Emigration and immigration History 17th century; New England Emigration and immigration History 17th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Through analyses of the process of migration and settlement and of the symbolic meaning that participants attached to their experiences, this book tells the story of New England's origins as one of dynamism and change. Focusing on the lives of nearly seven-hundred emigrants, the narrative examines such topics as the settlers' motives for leaving England, their experience of the voyage, their patterns of settlement in the New World, and their search for economic security in a new land. The descendants of the founders erected the story of their 'great' migration into early British America's only effective foundation myth - a record of achievement that succeeding generations could never match. Rich in detail and insight, this exploration of New England's founding examines both the lives of ordinary people and the transcendent meanings that those lives ultimately acquired.