Between Two Worlds, How the English Became Americans
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Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans (2014)
EN HC USISBN: 9780465011117 bzw. 046501111X, in Englisch, Basic Books 2014-11-11, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
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046501111X Very Good Condition - May show some limited signs of wear and may have a remainder mark. Pages and dust cover are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. Tracking is not available for orders shipped outside of the United States. **Heavier books will require additional postage for International** PA Sales Tax is included in purchase price.
046501111X Very Good Condition - May show some limited signs of wear and may have a remainder mark. Pages and dust cover are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. Tracking is not available for orders shipped outside of the United States. **Heavier books will require additional postage for International** PA Sales Tax is included in purchase price.
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Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans (2014)
EN HCISBN: 9780465011117 bzw. 046501111X, in Englisch, Basic Books, gebundenes Buch.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Versandkostenfrei.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Book Deals [60506629], Lewiston, NY, U.S.A.
This Book is in Good Condition. Clean Copy With Light Amount of Wear. 100% Guaranteed. Summary: Virginian-Pilot "Gaskill is good at demonstrating how little effort the Crown invested in nurturing and managing the colonies. Between Two World is often fascinating." Publishers Weekly "An in-depth look at the experiences of the first three generations of English settlers on the American continent that examines their slow transformation into a new culture. Meticulously-researched and drawing on a plenitude of original source material, Gaskill's study provides an underrepresented view of early American history." Kirkus "A comprehensive history of America's colonists, who struggled to separate while remaining English, and the English, who just wanted a cash cow." Mike Zuckerman, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania " Between Two Worlds may be the most vivid evocation of English experience in America that we have ever had. It fuses imperial politics and everyday economic life, high theology and humdrum horror, good omens and bad faith, courage and conniving and disaster and sudden death into the most compelling--and gorgeously written--account of early New England that I know. Every page is alive with incident and insight. Gaskill makes us see and feel and almost smell and touch and sense the hopes and fears of those Puritan adventurers, in prose of extraordinary pungency and eloquence. He captures brilliantly the ways in which English men and women in the New World clung longingly to the manners they remembered (or imagined) and, as they did, despite themselves, became something other than what they clung to, something perhaps American. This is history in the grand manner." Karen Kupperman, author of The Jamestown Project " Between Two Worlds offers a comprehensive history of the English people's experience in America in the seventeenth century, in its continuing and changing relation to events in England. By including people in all the colonies and at all levels of society, we gain a true and compelling picture of these experiences." Mary Beth Norton, Professor of American History at Cornell University and author of In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 "A well-written, refreshing examination of seventeenth-century America (including both mainland and Caribbean settlements) from the English perspective. Written by an accomplished English historian, Between Two Worlds will provide readers with many new insights into the conservative English people who became Americans almost in spite of themselves." James Horn, author of A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America "This is a superb book. It could stand alone as a sweeping and comprehensive account of the first century of English settlement in The New World. But Malcolm Gaskill goes further and offers us a fascinating view of the formation of an English America in which colonists gradually become Americans and the English at home become increasingly distant. Between Two Worlds is simply the best book on the subject." Andrew Preston, author of Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy "We don't really know ourselves until we travel elsewhere. For those who thought they knew their American or British history, Malcolm Gaskill's new book does just that. He takes two familiar histories that are often told separately, of England and colonial America, and shows how inseparable they actually were. Between Two Worlds is not just beautifully written and grippingly told--it is also arrestingly original.".
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Book Deals [60506629], Lewiston, NY, U.S.A.
This Book is in Good Condition. Clean Copy With Light Amount of Wear. 100% Guaranteed. Summary: Virginian-Pilot "Gaskill is good at demonstrating how little effort the Crown invested in nurturing and managing the colonies. Between Two World is often fascinating." Publishers Weekly "An in-depth look at the experiences of the first three generations of English settlers on the American continent that examines their slow transformation into a new culture. Meticulously-researched and drawing on a plenitude of original source material, Gaskill's study provides an underrepresented view of early American history." Kirkus "A comprehensive history of America's colonists, who struggled to separate while remaining English, and the English, who just wanted a cash cow." Mike Zuckerman, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania " Between Two Worlds may be the most vivid evocation of English experience in America that we have ever had. It fuses imperial politics and everyday economic life, high theology and humdrum horror, good omens and bad faith, courage and conniving and disaster and sudden death into the most compelling--and gorgeously written--account of early New England that I know. Every page is alive with incident and insight. Gaskill makes us see and feel and almost smell and touch and sense the hopes and fears of those Puritan adventurers, in prose of extraordinary pungency and eloquence. He captures brilliantly the ways in which English men and women in the New World clung longingly to the manners they remembered (or imagined) and, as they did, despite themselves, became something other than what they clung to, something perhaps American. This is history in the grand manner." Karen Kupperman, author of The Jamestown Project " Between Two Worlds offers a comprehensive history of the English people's experience in America in the seventeenth century, in its continuing and changing relation to events in England. By including people in all the colonies and at all levels of society, we gain a true and compelling picture of these experiences." Mary Beth Norton, Professor of American History at Cornell University and author of In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 "A well-written, refreshing examination of seventeenth-century America (including both mainland and Caribbean settlements) from the English perspective. Written by an accomplished English historian, Between Two Worlds will provide readers with many new insights into the conservative English people who became Americans almost in spite of themselves." James Horn, author of A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America "This is a superb book. It could stand alone as a sweeping and comprehensive account of the first century of English settlement in The New World. But Malcolm Gaskill goes further and offers us a fascinating view of the formation of an English America in which colonists gradually become Americans and the English at home become increasingly distant. Between Two Worlds is simply the best book on the subject." Andrew Preston, author of Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy "We don't really know ourselves until we travel elsewhere. For those who thought they knew their American or British history, Malcolm Gaskill's new book does just that. He takes two familiar histories that are often told separately, of England and colonial America, and shows how inseparable they actually were. Between Two Worlds is not just beautifully written and grippingly told--it is also arrestingly original.".
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Between Two Worlds, How the English Became Americans (2014)
EN NW EBISBN: 9780465080861 bzw. 0465080863, in Englisch, Basic Books, neu, E-Book.
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In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away. In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Foll... In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away. In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to leave their mark on the New World, they were forced—by hardship and hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate battles with Indians—to innovate and adapt or perish. As later generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward rebellion and, finally, independence Productinformatie:Taal: Engels;Formaat: ePub met kopieerbeveiliging (DRM) van Adobe;Kopieerrechten: Het kopiëren van (delen van) de pagina's is niet toegestaan ;Geschikt voor: Alle e-readers te koop bij bol.com (of compatible met Adobe DRM). Telefoons/tablets met Google Android (1.6 of hoger) voorzien van bol.com boekenbol app. PC en Mac met Adobe reader software;ISBN10: 0465080863;ISBN13: 9780465080861; Engels | Ebook | 2014.
bol.com.
In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away. In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Foll... In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away. In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to leave their mark on the New World, they were forced—by hardship and hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate battles with Indians—to innovate and adapt or perish. As later generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward rebellion and, finally, independence Productinformatie:Taal: Engels;Formaat: ePub met kopieerbeveiliging (DRM) van Adobe;Kopieerrechten: Het kopiëren van (delen van) de pagina's is niet toegestaan ;Geschikt voor: Alle e-readers te koop bij bol.com (of compatible met Adobe DRM). Telefoons/tablets met Google Android (1.6 of hoger) voorzien van bol.com boekenbol app. PC en Mac met Adobe reader software;ISBN10: 0465080863;ISBN13: 9780465080861; Engels | Ebook | 2014.
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Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans
EN HC USISBN: 9780465011117 bzw. 046501111X, in Englisch, Basic Books, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Versandkostenfrei.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Yankee Clipper Books [54992501], Windsor Locks, CT, U.S.A.
Nearly new condition book.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Yankee Clipper Books [54992501], Windsor Locks, CT, U.S.A.
Nearly new condition book.
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