Reviews
A concise, informed history of the region.
Conforti's book will give you better understanding of Colonial New England and the lives of your ancestors who settled there.
The most innovative characteristic of Saints and Strangers is surely its integration of so many different people into a chronological narrative.
Conforti packs a lot of important new material into this slender paperback and offers valuable suggestions for further reading.
Conforti ably covers large amounts of material and time with inviting prose... Conforti's work comes highly recommended.
This insightful, finely nuanced interpretation provides readers with a fresh, up-to-date narrative of New England history.
Book Details
Acknowledgments
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
Acknowledgments
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