LEADER 05349nam 2200805Ia 450 001 9910817192603321 005 20240418030328.0 010 $a0-8122-0264-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202649 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418182 035 $a(EBL)3442052 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001035908 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11574482 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001035908 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11041484 035 $a(PQKB)10847976 035 $a(OCoLC)859162337 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26729 035 $a(DE-B1597)449120 035 $a(OCoLC)1013947900 035 $a(OCoLC)979778774 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202649 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442052 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748398 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442052 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418182 100 $a20060511d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAbraham in arms $ewar and gender in colonial New England /$fAnn M. Little 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (272 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 0 $aEarly American Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8122-1961-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [209]-251) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tWars of the Northeastern Borderlands, 1636-1763 --$tIntroduction: Onward Christian Soldiers, 1678 --$tChapter 1. "You dare not fight, you are all one like women": The Contest of Masculinities in the Seventeenth Century --$tChapter 2. "What are you an Indian or an Englishman?" Cultural Cross-Dressing in the Northeastern Borderlands --$tChapter 3. "Insolent" Squaws and "Unreasonable" Masters: Indian Captivity and Family Life --$tChapter 4. "A jesuit will ruin you Body & Soul!'' Daughters of New England in Canada --$tChapter 5. "Who will be Masters of America The French or the English?" Manhood and Imperial Warfare in the Eighteenth Century --$tEpilogue: On the Plains of Abraham --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn 1678, the Puritan minister Samuel Nowell preached a sermon he called "Abraham in Arms," in which he urged his listeners to remember that "Hence it is no wayes unbecoming a Christian to learn to be a Souldier." The title of Nowell's sermon was well chosen. Abraham of the Old Testament resonated deeply with New England men, as he embodied the ideal of the householder-patriarch, at once obedient to God and the unquestioned leader of his family and his people in war and peace. Yet enemies challenged Abraham's authority in New England: Indians threatened the safety of his household, subordinates in his own family threatened his status, and wives and daughters taken into captivity became baptized Catholics, married French or Indian men, and refused to return to New England. In a bold reinterpretation of the years between 1620 and 1763, Ann M. Little reveals how ideas about gender and family life were central to the ways people in colonial New England, and their neighbors in New France and Indian Country, described their experiences in cross-cultural warfare. Little argues that English, French, and Indian people had broadly similar ideas about gender and authority. Because they understood both warfare and political power to be intertwined expressions of manhood, colonial warfare may be understood as a contest of different styles of masculinity. For New England men, what had once been a masculinity based on household headship, Christian piety, and the duty to protect family and faith became one built around the more abstract notions of British nationalism, anti-Catholicism, and soldiering for the Empire. Based on archival research in both French and English sources, court records, captivity narratives, and the private correspondence of ministers and war officials, Abraham in Arms reconstructs colonial New England as a frontier borderland in which religious, cultural, linguistic, and geographic boundaries were permeable, fragile, and contested by Europeans and Indians alike. 410 0$aEarly American studies. 606 $aEnglish$zNew England$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aFrench$zNew England$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zNew England 606 $aIndians of North America$zNew England$xHistory 606 $aMasculinity$zNew England$xHistory 606 $aSex role$zNew England$xHistory 607 $aNew England$xEthnic relations 607 $aNew England$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775 607 $aNew England$xHistory, Military 607 $aNew England$xSocial conditions 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 615 0$aEnglish$xHistory 615 0$aFrench$xHistory 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life 615 0$aIndians of North America$xHistory. 615 0$aMasculinity$xHistory. 615 0$aSex role$xHistory. 676 $a974/.02 700 $aLittle$b Ann M$01631319 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817192603321 996 $aAbraham in arms$93970057 997 $aUNINA