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Item Details
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THE JOURNAL OF JOHN WINTHROP, 1630-49
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| By: |
John Winthrop, Richard S. Dunn (Editor), Leatitia Yeadle (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£44.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0674484266 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780674484269 |
| Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 1997 |
| Edition: |
Abridged edition |
| Series: |
Belknap Press S. |
| Pages: |
374 |
| Description: |
Governor John Winthrop's journal is a source for the history of Massachusetts in the 1630s and 1640s. Winthrop reported mainly religious and political events. This abridged edition incorporates about 40 per cent of the governor's text, with his spelling and punctuation modernized. |
| Synopsis: |
This abridged edition of Winthrop's journal, which incorporates about modernized, includes an introduction and complete annotation. It also includes Winthrop's famous lay sermon, "A Model of Christian Charity", written in 1630. As in the fuller journal, this abridged edition contains the drama of Winthrop's life - his defeat at the hands of the freemen for governor, the banishment and flight of Roger Williams to Rhode Island, the Pequot War that exterminated his Indian opponents, and the Antinomian controversy. Here is the earliest American document on the perpetual contest between the forces of good and evil in the wilderness - Winthrop's recounting of how God's Chosen People escaped from captivity into the promised land. While he recorded all the sexual scandal - rape, fornication, adultery, sodomy and buggery - it was only to show that even in Godly New England the Devil was continually at work, and man must be forever militant. |
| Illustrations: |
1 halftone, 14 line illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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