
Fierce Communion
Family and Community in Early America
Harvard University Press books are not shipped directly to India due to regional distribution arrangements. Buy from your local bookstore, Amazon.co.in, or Flipkart.com.
This book is not shipped directly to country due to regional distribution arrangements.
Pre-order for this book isn't available yet on our website.
This book is currently unavailable
Dropdown items
ISBN 9780674299597
Publication date: 08/11/1995
Helena Wall shows what life was like in colonial America, a culture where individuals and family were subordinated to the demands of the community. Using local town, church, and especially court records from every colony, she examines the division of authority between family and community throughout colonial America.
Although this close relationship and its consequences for private life bred many tensions and conflicts, the premises and conditions of that interdependent association persisted even into the nineteenth century. Wall sketches the subsequent changes and outlines the new arrangements of family and community life as the colonies moved toward the formation of a new nation.
Praise
-
A fascinating foray into the private and communal lives of colonial Americans… The power of Fierce Communion…does not lie in its explication of the decline of early American communal life, but in the portrayal of its interrelated components.
-
In this short and engagingly written book, Helena Wall draws on an impressive range of primary and secondary sources to illustrate ‘the primacy of community’ in the North American colonies before 1750.
-
This lively book gives us a fresh and challenging view of some seemingly well-worn historical territory. Indeed, it provides an important corrective to much of our previous thinking. Its numerous ‘cases’ from the period give it a decidedly human touch. This is one book that will, among other things, be fun to read.
Author
- Helena M. Wall is Associate Professor of History, Pomona College.
Book Details
- 256 pages
- 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches
- Harvard University Press
Recommendations
-
-
Our Dear-Bought Liberty
Michael D. Breidenbach -
The World of Plymouth Plantation
Carla Gardina Pestana -
Masters of the Middle Waters
Jacob F. Lee -
Indian Captive, Indian King
Timothy J. Shannon