Peoples of a Spacious Land : : Families and Cultures in Colonial New England / / Gloria L. Main.
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 human problems. Using original sources--diaries, inventories, wills, cou...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Native New England
- 2 Newcomers
- 3 Taking the Land
- 4 Sexuality, Courtship, and Marriage
- 5 Bearing and Losing Children
- 6 Childrearing and the Experience of Childhood
- 7 Youth and Old Age
- 8 Transitions: The Narragansetts
- 9 Transitions: The English
- Select Bibliography
- Notes
- Index