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Between Two Worlds

- How the English Became Americans
Af: Malcolm Gaskill Engelsk Paperback

Between Two Worlds

- How the English Became Americans
Af: Malcolm Gaskill Engelsk Paperback
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Between Two Worlds is a story teeming with people on the move, making decisions, indulging or resisting their desires and dreams. In the seventeenth century a quarter of a million men, women, and children left England''s shores for America. Some were explorers and merchants, others soldiers and missionaries; many were fugitives from poverty and persecution. All, in their own way, were adventurers, risking their lives and fortunes to make something of themselves overseas. They irrevocably changed the land and indigenous peoples they encountered - and their new world changed them. But that was only half the story. The plantations established from Maine to the Caribbean needed support at home, especially royal endorsement and money, which made adventurers of English monarchs and investors too. Attitudes to America were crucial, and evolved as the colonies grew in size, prosperity, and self-confidence. Meanwhile, for those who had crossed the ocean, America forced people to rethink the country in which they had been raised, and to which they remained attached after emigration. In tandem with new ideas about the New World, migrants pondered their English mother country''s traditions and achievements, its problems and its uncertain future in an age of war and revolution. Using hundreds of letters, journals, reports, pamphlets and contemporary books, Between Two Worlds recreates this fascinating transatlantic history - one which has often been neglected or misunderstood on both sides of the Atlantic in the centuries since.
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Between Two Worlds is a story teeming with people on the move, making decisions, indulging or resisting their desires and dreams. In the seventeenth century a quarter of a million men, women, and children left England''s shores for America. Some were explorers and merchants, others soldiers and missionaries; many were fugitives from poverty and persecution. All, in their own way, were adventurers, risking their lives and fortunes to make something of themselves overseas. They irrevocably changed the land and indigenous peoples they encountered - and their new world changed them. But that was only half the story. The plantations established from Maine to the Caribbean needed support at home, especially royal endorsement and money, which made adventurers of English monarchs and investors too. Attitudes to America were crucial, and evolved as the colonies grew in size, prosperity, and self-confidence. Meanwhile, for those who had crossed the ocean, America forced people to rethink the country in which they had been raised, and to which they remained attached after emigration. In tandem with new ideas about the New World, migrants pondered their English mother country''s traditions and achievements, its problems and its uncertain future in an age of war and revolution. Using hundreds of letters, journals, reports, pamphlets and contemporary books, Between Two Worlds recreates this fascinating transatlantic history - one which has often been neglected or misunderstood on both sides of the Atlantic in the centuries since.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 520
ISBN-13: 9780199672974
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0199672970
Udg. Dato: 22 okt 2020
Længde: 31mm
Bredde: 214mm
Højde: 139mm
Forlag: Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato: 22 okt 2020
Forfatter(e): Malcolm Gaskill
Forfatter(e) Malcolm Gaskill


Kategori Migration, immigration og emigration


ISBN-13 9780199672974


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 520


Udgave


Længde 31mm


Bredde 214mm


Højde 139mm


Udg. Dato 22 okt 2020


Oplagsdato 22 okt 2020


Forlag Oxford University Press

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