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Peoples of a spacious land : families and cultures in colonial New England

Title: Peoples of a spacious land : families and cultures in colonial New England / Gloria L. Main.
Author: Main, Gloria L. (Gloria Lund), 1933-
Publication: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.

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Description

xi, 316 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"In this book about families - those of the various native peoples of southern New England and those of the English settlers and their descendants - Gloria Main compares the ways in which the two cultures went about solving common problems. Main finds that the transplanted English family system produced descendants who were unusually healthy and spectacularly fecund. She follows the two cultures into the eighteenth century and makes clear how the promise of perpetual accessions of new land eventually extended Puritan family culture across much of the North American continent."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Native New England -- Newcomers -- Taking the land -- Sexuality, courtship, and marriage -- Bearing and losing children -- Childrearing and the experience of childhood -- Youth and old age -- Transitions: the Narragansetts -- Transitions: the English.

ISBN

0674006283
9780674006287

LCCN

2001016989

OCLC

ocm46240244
46240244
SCSB-14706231

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library