Conforti, Saints And Strangers - New England In British North America

Abstract

One of the many virtues of this compact, but multi-layered, survey of colonial New England is that it never forgets that the past had a past. A major theme of Saints and Strangers is how successive generations of colonial New Englanders located themselves in time and place through reinterpretations of the roles and deeds of their ancestors. Depending on developments in both North America and in the home country, New Englanders saw themselves either as a new strain with a special mission or as British, through and through, playing their part in the burgeoning empire.