The Mayflower Papers: Selected Writings of Colonial New EnglandPenguin, 2007 M04 24 - 336 páginas The most important personal accounts of the Plymouth Colony, the key sources of Nathaniel Philbrick's New York Times bestseller Mayflower National Book Award winner Nathaniel Philbrick and his father, Thomas Philbrick, present the most significant and readable original works that were used in the writing of Mayflower, offering a definitive look at a crucial era of America's history. The selections include William Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation" (1651), the most comprehensive of all contemporary accounts of settlement in seventeenth-century America; Benjamin Church's "Entertaining Passages Relating to Philip's War 1716," an eye-opening account from Church's field notes from battle; and much more. Providing explanatory notes for every piece, the editors have vividly re-created the world of seventeenth-century New England for anyone interested in the early history of our nation. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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... began with the voyage of the Mayflower . Since the next significant event in American history — at least as taught in many of our schools — does not occur until more than 150 years later with the outbreak of the Revolution , it is not ...
... began with the voyage of the Mayflower . Since the next significant event in American history — at least as taught in many of our schools — does not occur until more than 150 years later with the outbreak of the Revolution , it is not ...
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... began in the 1630s . To avoid repetition , The Mayflower Papers relies primarily on the earlier accounts to describe the Pilgrims ' first eventful years in America while it looks to Bradford's history to tell what happened prior to ...
... began in the 1630s . To avoid repetition , The Mayflower Papers relies primarily on the earlier accounts to describe the Pilgrims ' first eventful years in America while it looks to Bradford's history to tell what happened prior to ...
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... began a lifelong process of self - education through rigorous study and reading . As a teenager he joined a congregation of Separatistsextreme Protestants who believed that they must separate themselves from the Church of England in ...
... began a lifelong process of self - education through rigorous study and reading . As a teenager he joined a congregation of Separatistsextreme Protestants who believed that they must separate themselves from the Church of England in ...
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... began to be well - stricken in years , the grave mistress Experience having taught them many things , those prudent governors with sundry of the sagest members began both deeply to apprehend their present dangers and wisely to foresee ...
... began to be well - stricken in years , the grave mistress Experience having taught them many things , those prudent governors with sundry of the sagest members began both deeply to apprehend their present dangers and wisely to foresee ...
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... began to steal on many of them ( and their great and continual labors , with other crosses and sorrows , hastened it before the time ) , so as it was not only probably thought , but apparently seen that within a few years more they ...
... began to steal on many of them ( and their great and continual labors , with other crosses and sorrows , hastened it before the time ) , so as it was not only probably thought , but apparently seen that within a few years more they ...
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From William Bradford | 107 |
From Edward Winslow | 143 |
From Thomas Morton | 154 |
From Mary Rowlandson | 166 |
From Benjamin Church | 212 |
Notes | 289 |
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