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Between Two Worlds - How the English Became Americans (Paperback)
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Between Two Worlds - How the English Became Americans (Paperback)
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List price R527
Loot Price R444
Discovery Miles 4 440
You Save R83 (16%)
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Between Two Worlds is a story teeming with people on the move,
making decisions, indulging or resisting their desires and dreams.
In the seventeenth century a quarter of a million men, women, and
children left England's shores for America. Some were explorers and
merchants, others soldiers and missionaries; many were fugitives
from poverty and persecution. All, in their own way, were
adventurers, risking their lives and fortunes to make something of
themselves overseas. They irrevocably changed the land and
indigenous peoples they encountered - and their new world changed
them. But that was only half the story. The plantations established
from Maine to the Caribbean needed support at home, especially
royal endorsement and money, which made adventurers of English
monarchs and investors too. Attitudes to America were crucial, and
evolved as the colonies grew in size, prosperity, and
self-confidence. Meanwhile, for those who had crossed the ocean,
America forced people to rethink the country in which they had been
raised, and to which they remained attached after emigration. In
tandem with new ideas about the New World, migrants pondered their
English mother country's traditions and achievements, its problems
and its uncertain future in an age of war and revolution. Using
hundreds of letters, journals, reports, pamphlets and contemporary
books, Between Two Worlds recreates this fascinating transatlantic
history - one which has often been neglected or misunderstood on
both sides of the Atlantic in the centuries since.
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