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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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- Unbranded
- MPN
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- ISBN
- 9780679759614
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679759611
ISBN-13
9780679759614
eBay Product ID (ePID)
170249
Product Key Features
Book Title
Unredeemed Captive : a Family Story from Early America
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1995
Topic
United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), General, Native American
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
10 oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
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Reviews
"Fascinating and alluring in the way the best writing on history can be."-- The Observer "Powerful and useful. . . .Demos has achieved the kind of balancing act that historians constantly strive for but seldom achieve."-- New Republic "This thought-provoking study explores the multiple communities to which apparently simple people belonged and how their domestic lives were overtaken by political events. Fascinating, lively, and especially timely to an age struggling to understand the implications of its own cross-cultural encounters."-- Kirkus "A masterpiece...recovering for us the poignant story of lives and families shattered and then painfully knitted together again in the complex cultural encounters between English, French, and Mohawk peoples in eighteenth-century America. There is nothing quite like it in our literature. It is a stunning achievement that should change forever the way we write and tell stories about the American past."--William Cronon, "Fascinating and alluring in the way the best writing on history can be."-- The Observer "Powerful and useful. . . .Demos has achieved the kind of balancing act that historians constantly strive for but seldom achieve."-- New Republic "This thought-provoking study explores the multiple communities to which apparently simple people belonged and how their domestic lives were overtaken by political events. Fascinating, lively, and especially timely to an age struggling to understand the implications of its own cross-cultural encounters."-- Kirkus "A masterpiece...recovering for us the poignant story of lives and families shattered and then painfully knitted together again in the complex cultural encounters between English, French, and Mohawk peoples in eighteenth-century America. There is nothing quite like it in our literature. It is a stunning achievement that should change forever the way we write and tell stories about the American past."--William Cronon, "A masterpiece...recovering for us the poignant story of lives and families shattered and then painfully knitted together again in the complex cultural encounters between English, French, and Mohawk peoples in eighteenth-century America. There is nothing quite like it in our literature. It is a stunning achievement that should change forever the way we write and tell stories about the American past."--William Cronon
Synopsis
Nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the Francis Parkman Prize. The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavoured to "civilize" a "savage" native populace. There, in February 1704, a French and Indian war party descended on the village of Deerfield, abducting a Puritan minister and his children. Although John Williams was eventually released, his daughter horrified the family by staying with her captors and marrying a Mohawk husband. Out of this incident, The Bancroft Prize-winning historian John Devos has constructed a gripping narrative that opens a window into North America where English, French, and Native Americans faced one another across gilfs of culture and belief, and sometimes crossed over.
LC Classification Number
F27.K32
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