The Puritan Ordeal

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The Puritan Ordeal
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9780674034174
ISBN-13 : 0674034171
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Book Synopsis The Puritan Ordeal by : Andrew Delbanco

Book excerpt: More than an ecclesiastical or political history, this book is a vivid description of the earliest American immigrant experience. It depicts the dramatic tale of the seventeenth-century newcomers to our shores as they were drawn and pushed to make their way in an unsettled and unsettling world.


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