John Putnam Demos is Samuel Knight Professor of History at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony and Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England.
"Fascinating and alluring in the way the best writing on history
can be."--The Observer
"Powerful and useful. . . .Demos has achieved the kind of balancing
act that historians constantly strive for but seldom achieve."--New
Republic
"This thought-provoking study explores the multiple communities to
which apparently simple people belonged and how their domestic
lives were overtaken by political events. Fascinating, lively, and
especially timely to an age struggling to understand the
implications of its own cross-cultural encounters."--Kirkus
"A masterpiece...recovering for us the poignant story of lives and
families shattered and then painfully knitted together again in the
complex cultural encounters between English, French, and Mohawk
peoples in eighteenth-century America. There is nothing quite like
it in our literature. It is a stunning achievement that should
change forever the way we write and tell stories about the American
past."--William Cronon
"Fascinating and alluring in the way the best writing on history
can be."--The Observer
"Powerful and useful. . . .Demos has achieved the kind of balancing
act that historians constantly strive for but seldom
achieve."--New Republic
"This thought-provoking study explores the multiple communities to
which apparently simple people belonged and how their domestic
lives were overtaken by political events. Fascinating, lively, and
especially timely to an age struggling to understand the
implications of its own cross-cultural
encounters."--Kirkus
"A masterpiece...recovering for us the poignant story of lives and
families shattered and then painfully knitted together again in the
complex cultural encounters between English, French, and Mohawk
peoples in eighteenth-century America. There is nothing quite like
it in our literature. It is a stunning achievement that should
change forever the way we write and tell stories about the American
past."--William Cronon
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