Puritans at Play: Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England

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Author:   NA NA ,  Na Na
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2090
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
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9781403972125


ISBN 10:   1403972125
Pages:   271
Publication Date:   01 January 1995
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Daniels' account is a serious contribution to Puritan scholarship, serving to recharacterize our Puritan fathers in their full human dimensions. -- Kirkus Reviews It is rare for a book to be both erudite and amusing at the same time, and this book has succeeded. It has changes the common but unacceptable image of the Puritans as dull, solemn, melancholy misanthropes. --Horton Davies, author of The Worship of the American Puritans Daniels succeeds admirably in providing a fuller and better understanding of the changing everyday experiences of New England Puritans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. --Maris A. Vinovskis, University of Michigan, American Historical Review


Daniels' account is a serious contribution to Puritan scholarship, serving to recharacterize our Puritan fathers in their full human dimensions. -- Kirkus Reviews <br> It is rare for a book to be both erudite and amusing at the same time, and this book has succeeded. It has changes the common but unacceptable image of the Puritans as dull, solemn, melancholy misanthropes. --Horton Davies, author of The Worship of the American Puritans <br> Daniels succeeds admirably in providing a fuller and better understanding of the changing everyday experiences of New England Puritans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. --Maris A. Vinovskis, University of Michigan, American Historical Review <br>


Daniels' account is a serious contribution to Puritan scholarship, serving to recharacterize our Puritan fathers in their full human dimensions. -- Kirkus Reviews It is rare for a book to be both erudite and amusing at the same time, and this book has succeeded. It has changes the common but unacceptable image of the Puritans as dull, solemn, melancholy misanthropes. --Horton Davies, author of The Worship of the American Puritans Daniels succeeds admirably in providing a fuller and better understanding of the changing everyday experiences of New England Puritans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. --Maris A. Vinovskis, University of Michigan, American Historical Review


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Bruce C. Daniels, Professor of History at Texas Tech University, is a specialist on colonial and Revolutionary New England and on international views of American history. He is a past president of the Canadian Association for American Studies and in the spring of 2005 was the Nikolai Sivachev Distinguished Fulbright Chair at Moscow State University

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