| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: 1676 -- Droitwich -- Leiden -- Leaving Holland -- The voyage -- Land -- Massasoit -- The building of "our town" -- Good farms -- Massachusetts begins -- The Pequot War -- The Pan-Indian Conspiracy -- Leaving for London, 1646 -- Republican England -- Hercules -- Generational change -- The coming of war -- King Philip's War -- Penelope alone: the widow's bed "not priced" -- Penelope's final actions. |
| Summary |
Draws on contemporary documents to examine the lives of an ordinary family, the Winslows, made less ordinary by their responses to the challenges of the New World after their passage on the Mayflower. |
| Subject |
Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655.
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Winslow, Josiah, 1629?-1680.
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Winslow family.
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Mayflower (Ship).
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Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
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Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691.
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| ISBN |
9781250108562 hardcover |
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125010856X hardcover |
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