Abraham in arms : war and gender in colonial New England /
For New England men, what had once been a masculinity based on household headship, Christian piety, and the duty to protect family and faith became one built around the more abstract notions of British nationalism, anti-Catholicism, and soldiering for the Empire." "Based on archival resear...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2007]
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| Series: | Early American studies.
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| Online Access: | Book review (H-Net) Inhaltsverzeichnis Klappentext |
| Summary: | For New England men, what had once been a masculinity based on household headship, Christian piety, and the duty to protect family and faith became one built around the more abstract notions of British nationalism, anti-Catholicism, and soldiering for the Empire." "Based on archival research in both French and English sources, court records, captivity narratives, and the private correspondence of ministers and war officials, Abraham in Arms reconstructs colonial New England as a frontier borderland in which religious, cultural, linguistic, and geographic boundaries were permeable, fragile, and contested by Europeans and Indians alike."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-251) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0812239652 (alk. paper) 9780812239652 (alk. paper) 0812219619 (pbk.) 9780812219616 (pbk.) |