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Author Manchester, Margaret Muranyi, 1954- author.

Title Puritan family and community in the English Atlantic world : being "much afflicted with conscience" / Margaret Murányi Manchester
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 157 pages)
Series Microhistories
Microhistories.
Contents Introduction: The Verins : a family "much afflicted with conscience" -- "Gone to New England for conscience sake" : family history as New England history -- "Piety tempers patriarchy" : women of conscience in the English Atlantic world -- "Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils" : government, law, and liberty of conscience in Puritan New England -- Conclusion : Women of obstinate faith
Summary "Puritan Family and Community in the English Atlantic World examines the dynamics of marriage, family, and community life during the 'Great Migration' through the microhistorical study of one Puritan family in 1638 Rhode Island. Connecting migration studies, family and community studies, religious studies, and political philosophy, Puritan Family and Community in the English Atlantic World will be of great interest to scholars of the English Atlantic World, American religious history, gender and violence, the history of New England, and the history of family"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Margaret Murâanyi Manchester is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Providence College, USA. She teaches courses on US history, American women's history, and diplomatic history. Her current research revisits a spy story involving in Cold War Hungary
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 27, 2019)
Subject Verin family
Puritans -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- History -- 17th century
Puritan women -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- Social conditions -- 17th century
Family violence -- Law and legislation -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- History -- 17th century
Married women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- History -- 17th century
Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Puritans
Freedom of religion -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- History -- 17th century
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
HISTORY -- General.
Family violence -- Law and legislation.
Freedom of religion.
Married women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Puritans.
SUBJECT Providence (R.I.) -- History -- 17th century
New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091268
Subject New England.
Rhode Island -- Providence.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019014570
ISBN 9780429054860
0429054866
9780429619908
0429619901
9780429622052
0429622058
9780429617751
0429617755