{"product_id":"new-light-on-the-old-colony-plymouth-the-dutch-context-of-toleration-and-patterns-of-pilgrim-commemoration-9789004413849","title":"New Light on the Old Colony: Plymouth, the Dutch Context of Toleration, and Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColonial government, Pilgrims, the New England town, Native land, the background of religious toleration, and the changing memory recalling the Pilgrims – all are examined and stereotypical assumptions overturned in 15 essays by the foremost authority on the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony.    Thorough research revises the story of colonists and of the people they displaced. Bangs’ book is required reading for the history of New England, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Natives, the Mennonite contribution to religious toleration in Europe and New England, and the history of commemoration, from paintings and pageants to living history and internet memes. If Pilgrims were radical, so is this book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This lengthy book draws on Bangs’s four decades of research into the Pilgrims. The range of topics is wide, including discussions and analyses of intellectual and religious history, the divisions of land in the colony, relevant portraits, old town records, and reception history, among other things. This book is not for beginners, and there is no summarizing narrative of the Pilgrims before and after their voyage to the New World. The basics are assumed. But those who know the story and are interested in digging more deeply will want to consult this informative volume, which is a fitting example of Bangs’s prolific work on the Pilgrims and does in fact shed new light.\"    Keith D. Stanglin, Austin Graduate School of Theology, in Church History and Religious Culture CHRC 101.1, pp 119-120      \"One problem with Pilgrim history is that everyone thinks they already know it. This book makes clear that in forty years of studying the Pilgrims, Bangs has discovered plenty that is new. Historians of early America owe it to themselves to listen.\"    Michael J. Douma, Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business, in the Journal of Early American History, volume 10, pp. 112-115.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  Introduction    Section 1: The Old Colony    Part 1: The Colony   1Plymouth’s Creation: A Congregational Commonwealth   1The Mayflower Compact gave Structure to Plymouth Colony’s Society   2The Mayflower Compact: Lastingly Significant and Influential, or Temporarily Expedient and Forgotten?   3Creating a Consensual Commonwealth   4The Mayflower Compact as the Cornerstone and Framework of Plymouth Colony Constitutionalism   5Dividing the Land, the First New Towns, and Other Democratic Choices   6Plymouth’s Expanded Constitution of 1636, More Towns and Churches, and the Shift to Representative Government   7Churches, Government, Toleration, and Quakers   8Representation by Selectmen, Taxation supporting Churches   9Conclusion   2Tribes and Land Reserves in Plymouth Colony   1Empty New England    2Not Really Empty   3Pokanoket   4Nauset   5Nemasket   6The Massachusetts   7Narragansetts   8Intrigue and Death   9Tribal Land, Tribal Losses   10Nauset, Manomet, and the Mashpee Reserve   11The Pokanoket Indians and the Mount Hope (Montaup) Reserve   12The Massachusetts and the Titicut Reserve     13The Wampanoag   3William Bradford’s Sources for Dutch Law: Edward Grimeston and Emanuel van Meteren   1Civil Marriage in Holland – Edward Grimeston   2King James i and Church Reform – Emanuel van Meteren   3The Union of Utrecht and the Act of Abjuration   4Constructing History   4Intellectual Baggage: The Useful Pilgrims and the Culture of Plymouth Colony   1Death Preceded Them   2Bibles   3Psalm Books   4Theology   5Exegesis   6Piety   7Religious Polemics   8History   9Other   5Towards a Revision of the Pilgrims: Three New Pictures    1Background   2A New Departure   3A New Plymouth?   4Another Portrait of Edward Winslow    Part 2: The Towns   6Scituate: Excerpts from the Introductions to the Seventeenth-Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts   1Studying Families in Context: The New Antiquarianism   2Scituate’s Reality and Historiographical Myths   3What kind of town was Scituate? Historians provide answers   4Topics of Conversation   5Business and craft production in Scituate: Ships and Shipping   6Mills, Fishing, Furniture, and Other Work   7Misbehavior   8Prices, Wages, and Livestock   9Some Conclusions   7Eastham Town Records Introduction   1Eastham’s Native Leaders and the First Colonists   8Sandwich Town Records Introduction   9Marshfield Town Records Introduction   1The Sufferings of Arthur Howland    Section 2: The Dutch Context of Toleration   10Dutch Aid to Persecuted Swiss and Palatine Mennonites, 1615–1699   1Persecution, Reports, Response, and Remembrance   2Doctrinal Bickering Amidst Persecution – 1614   3Dutch Aid Begins (1640’s)   4Isaac Hattavier’s Attempts to Help (1637–1658)   5Hans Vlamingh’s Contacts and Dutch Government Intercession (1650’s and 1660’s)   61663 Extract of List of the Names of Mennonite Prisoners   7Philipp von Zesen’s Book, Against the Coercion of Conscience(1665)   8Hans Vlamingh, Galenus Abrahamsz. de Haan, Jacob Everling, and Valentin Huetwohl: Disaster Relief in 1671–1672   9The Disaster Year, 1672   10Galenus Abrahamsz. de Haan, William Penn, and David Holtzhalb   11Philippus van Limborch and John Locke’s ‘Letter on Toleration’ (1685–1689)   12Mennonite Relief during the War of the Grand Alliance   11Dutch Contributions to Religious Toleration   1Adriaen van der Donck and the Absence of Toleration in New Netherland   2Why did English People in 1657 Think there was Religious Freedom in Holland?   3Dutch Sources for Ideas on Toleration in Plymouth Colony and Rhode Island   4Dutch International Pleas for Toleration among Protestants   5Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration    Section 3: Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration   12The Triumph of the Pilgrims   1First-Person Fun   13The Hypothetical Nature of Plimoth Plantation’s Architecture   1Fashionable Modes of Memory   2The background   31947–1966: Plimoth Plantation’s Pilgrims as Prototypical Suburbanites   41967–1985: Pilgrims as Folk   51986–2000: Pilgrims as Identifiably Ethnic   62000–now: Pilgrims as Representative of their Class   7Hypothetical Nature   8Hypothetical Future   9Postscript 2019   14Always More Pilgrim Books   1The Primary Sources for the Pilgrim Story   2Nineteenth-century Histories   3Twentieth-century Repetition and Revision   4Into the Future – Pilgrims 2000 and Beyond   5Where Do We Go Next?   15Thanksgiving on the Net: Roast Bull with Cranberry Sauce   1Talking Turkey   2The Text   3Thanking Whom?   4Colored Clothes, No Buckled Hats! My Goodness!   5And, Yes, They did Call Themselves “Pilgrims.”   6The Fake Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1623   7The Libertarian’s First Thanksgiving   8A Cornucopia of Grievances   9The National Day of Mourning   10Genocide   11Lies My Teacher’s Telling Me Now   Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs: A List of Publications Concerning the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony   Books – Author or editor of   Book Chapters   Lemmas   Articles   Bibliography   Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210786267479,"sku":"9789004413849","price":183.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/new-light-on-the-old-colony-plymouth-the-dutch-context-of-toleration-and-patterns-of-pilgrim-commemoration-9789004413849","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}