Author: Robert Charles WinthropPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Life and Letters of John Winthrop
Author: Robert Charles WinthropPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Life and Letters of John Winthrop
Author: Robert Charles WinthropPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puritans
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Life and Letters of John Winthrop
Author: Robert Charles WinthropPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Life and Letters of John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts-Bay Company at Their Emigration to New England
Author: Robert Charles WinthropPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Life and Letters of John Winthrop
Author: Robern G. WinthropJohn Winthrop
Author: Francis J. BremerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0826429920
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
John Winthrop (1588-1649) was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and is generally considered the principal architect of early New England society. In placing his life in the context of the times, Bremer discusses Winthrop's family life and the challenges of life faced by men, women, and children in the seventeenth century.
Life and letters of John Winthrop, from 1630 to 1649
Author: Robert Charles WinthropPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649
Author: John WinthropPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674484269
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This abridged edition of Winthrop's journal, which incorporates about 40 percent of the governor's text, with his spelling and punctuation modernized, includes a lively Introduction and complete annotation. It also includes Winthrop's famous lay sermon, "A Model of Christian Charity", written in 1630. As in the fuller journal, this abridged edition contains the drama of Winthrop's life - his defeat at the hands of the freemen for governor, the banishment and flight of Roger Williams to Rhode Island, the Pequot War that exterminated his Indian opponents, and the Antinomian controversy. Here is the earliest American document on the perpetual contest between the forces of good and evil in the wilderness - Winthrop's recounting of how God's Chosen People escaped from captivity into the promised land. While he recorded all the sexual scandal - rape, fornication, adultery, sodomy, and buggery - it was only to show that even in Godly New England the Devil was continually at work, and man must be forever militant.
John Winthrop
Author: Michael ParkerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136725946
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Puritan politician, lawyer, and lay theologian John Winthrop fled England in 1630 when it looked like Charles I had successfully blocked all hopes of passing Puritan-inspired reforms in Parliament. Leading a migration, he came to New England in the hopes of creating an ideal Puritan community and eventually became the governor of Massachusetts. Winthrop is remembered for his role in the Puritan migration to the colonies and for delivering what is probably the most famous lay sermon in American history, "A Model of Christian Charity." In it he proclaimed that New England would be "a city upon a hill"--an example for future colonies. In John Winthrop: Founding the City upon a Hill, Michael Parker examines the political and religious history of this iconic figure. In this short biography, bolstered by letters, sermons, and maps, John Winthrop introduces students to the colonial world, the Pequot Wars, and the history of American Exceptionalism.
John Winthrop
Author: Francis J. BremerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198034016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
John Winthrop's effort to create a Puritan "City on a Hill" has had a lasting effect on American values, and many remember this phrase famously quoted by the late Ronald Reagan. However, most know very little about the first American to speak these words. In John Winthrop, Francis J. Bremer draws on over a decade of research in England, Ireland, and the United States to offer a superb biography of the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, one rooted in a detailed understanding of his first forty years in England. Indeed, Bremer provides an extensive, path-breaking treatment of Winthrop's family background, youthful development, and English career. His dissatisfaction with the decline of the "godly kingdom of the Stour Valley" in which he had been raised led him on his errand to rebuild such a society in a New England. In America, Winthrop would use the skills he had developed in England as he struggled with challenges from Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson, among others, and defended the colony from English interference. We also see the personal side of Winthrop--the doubts and concerns of the spiritual pilgrim, his everyday labors and pleasures, his feelings for family and friends. And Bremer also sheds much light on important historical moments in England and America, such as the Reformation and the rise of Puritanism, the rise of the middling class, the colonization movement, and colonial relations with Native Americans. Incorporating previously unexplored archival materials from both sides of the Atlantic, here is the definitive portrait of one of the giants of our history. John Winthrop recevied an honorable Mention, The Colonial Dames of America Book Award.