Description |
xv, 184 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm. |
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Series |
The Bedford series in history and culture |
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Bedford series in history and culture.
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Note |
Originally published: Cambridge : Printed by Samuel Green, 1682. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-176) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction. Mary Rowlandson and her removes. The setting: Metacom's War (1675-1676) -- Mary Rowlandson and her narrative -- The great migration -- The Anglo-Indian frontier -- A world upended -- Reordering and remembering -- Part 2. The document. The preface to the reader -- A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson -- Part 3. Related documents. Metacom on the causes of Anglo-Indian War -- The redemption of Mary Rowlandson -- Postwar justice -- Joseph Rowlandson's final sermon -- The captivity of Hannah Dustin -- Appendices. A Rowlandson chronology -- Questions for consideration. |
Summary |
Mary Rowlandson's The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, first published in 1682, is an English Puritan woman's account of her captivity among Native Americans during Metacom's War (1675-76) in southeastern New England. In this volume, 17 related documents support Rowlandson's text, which is reprinted from the earliest surviving edition of the narrative. - Publisher. |
Subject |
Rowlandson, Mary White, approximately 1635-1711.
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Rowlandson, Mary White, approximately 1635-1711 (OCoLC)fst01844865
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King Philip's War (1675-1676) (OCoLC)fst00987655
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Indian captivities -- Massachusetts.
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Indians of North America -- Massachusetts -- Biography.
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Indians of North America -- Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.
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King Philip's War, 1675-1676.
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Indian captivities. (OCoLC)fst00969063
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Indians of North America. (OCoLC)fst00969633
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Indians of North America -- Colonial period.
(OCoLC)fst01907009
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Massachusetts. (OCoLC)fst01204307
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Chronological Term |
1600-1775
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Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Added Author |
Salisbury, Neal, editor.
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ISBN |
0312111517 |
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9780312111519 |
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