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Puritans, Indians, and manifest destiny / Charles M. Segal and David C. Stineback ; foreword by Sacvan Bercovitch.

Segal, Charles M. (Added Author). Stineback, David C., 1943- (Added Author).

Summary:

"Here are fifty-five primary documents, culled from journals and diaries, courtroom testimony and sermons, which vividly bring to life the issues and attitudes of Puritan-Indian contact in seventeenth-century New England. The native-settler relationship is seen as a cultural conflict with a philosophical basis, arising out of the unity and conviction of hostile, but similar, cultures. Through conflicting voices we become privy to the Puritans' character, to their transparent self-interest, self-righteousness and guilt; and we discover that the period of 'Manifest Destiny,' commonly associated with nineteenth-century Anglo-Saxon attitudes, finds its genesis in the Puritan mind"--P. [4] of cover.

Record details

ISBN: 0399119280
ISBN: 9780399119286
ISBN: 0399503781 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780399503788 (pbk.)
Physical Description: 249 pages ; 23 cm.
Publisher: New York : Putnam, c1977.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-230) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction : "For the sake of our religion" -- "If thy belly be thy God" : land and trade -- "God wraps us in His ordinances" : government relations -- "If God be with us" : the Pequot War -- "Hiring them to hear sermons" : Christianizing the Indians --"To dispossess us of the land" : King Philip's War --"They thought their way was good".