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Book SynopsisConforti discusses how these subcommunities of white, red, and black strangers to Protestant piety retained their own cultures, coexisted, and even thrived within and beyond the domains of Puritan settlement, creating tensions and pressure points in the later development of early America.
Trade ReviewA concise, informed history of the region. -- William David Barry Maine Sunday Telegram 2006 Conforti's book will give you better understanding of Colonial New England and the lives of your ancestors who settled there. -- Sharon DeBartolo Carmack Family Tree Magazine 2007 The most innovative characteristic of Saints and Strangers is surely its integration of so many different people into a chronological narrative. -- Christopher P. Magra International Journal of Maritime History 2006 Conforti packs a lot of important new material into this slender paperback and offers valuable suggestions for further reading. -- Gloria L. Main Historian 2007 Conforti ably covers large amounts of material and time with inviting prose... Conforti's work comes highly recommended. -- Phillip Luke Sinitiere Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History 2007
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Prologue: City upon a Hill
1. Native New England: From Precontact to Colonial Beginnings
2. Puritan New England, 1620–1660
3. Beyond Puritan New England: Profane, Maritime, and Dissenting Borderlands
4. New England Besieged, 1660–1700
5. Saints and Strangers in the Eighteenth Century
6. Provincial New England: The Eighteenth-Century Empire of Liberty, Commerce, and Protestantism
Epilogue: From the City upon a Hill to Plymouth Rock
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index
