John Putnam Demos
Autor/a de The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
Sobre l'autor
John Putnam Demos is Samuel Knight Professor of History, Yale University.
Crèdit de la imatge: Radcliffe College
Obres de John Putnam Demos
Obres associades
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1983) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 1,398 exemplars
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Col·laborador — 134 exemplars
The Family in History; Interdisciplinary Essays (Harper Torchbooks, Tb 1757) (1971) — Col·laborador — 34 exemplars
Inventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America (1997) — Col·laborador — 16 exemplars
The American Family in Social-Historical Perspective, Second Edition (1978) — Col·laborador — 15 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Demos, John Putnam
- Data de naixement
- 1937-03-02
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Tyringham, Massachusetts, USA - Professions
- historian
professor - Organitzacions
- Yale University
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The unredeemed captive : a family story from early… de John Demos
i enjoyed it, but no as much as Indian Captive. There was just too little material to really get a sense of what it was like for the captive or her family. As a general history of the time and the relations between native americans and puritans-it was informative-but as a soi called micro-hostory I felt it was light
The history of culture contact as lived by colonial settlers in the early 18th century held as captives by Indians. This concerns a captive who in the end decided not to return to her family, which was a big humiliation for her family since her father was a minister and social leader.
I feel like it was a good idea but there were some sections that felt tangential or full of filler information.
Impeccable scholarship, vital insights into culture conflicts of the past, and present.
This wonderful book is the best kind of popular history: uncompromising in the standards of its scholarship, yet accessible and fascinating to a broad, non-academic audience of readers interested in the nature of cultural identity, and clashing/co-existing societies. It tells the story of one family forcibly ruptured into two worlds, when an Indian raid carries off family members, including a seven-year-old daughter so thoroughly embedded in her new, Indian (sorry; the tribe are not native Americans but a Canadian offshoot of various native groups) world that by the time her "redemption" is possible, she no longer wishes to return to the world of her birth. Insights, and ironies abound. (Her Puritan family is more distressed at her succumbing to "Popery" than to nativism.) The author meticulously collates, and limits himself to, documented historical data, yet does not hesitate to draw broader, thoughtful conclusions, always delineating the border between provable fact and well-founded projection. This is a work of both socio-psychological depth, and tremendous historic integrity. Whether you come to the book for interesting historical fact, or for deep insight into the nature of cultural intersections and conflicts, you will be well rewarded.… (més)
This wonderful book is the best kind of popular history: uncompromising in the standards of its scholarship, yet accessible and fascinating to a broad, non-academic audience of readers interested in the nature of cultural identity, and clashing/co-existing societies. It tells the story of one family forcibly ruptured into two worlds, when an Indian raid carries off family members, including a seven-year-old daughter so thoroughly embedded in her new, Indian (sorry; the tribe are not native Americans but a Canadian offshoot of various native groups) world that by the time her "redemption" is possible, she no longer wishes to return to the world of her birth. Insights, and ironies abound. (Her Puritan family is more distressed at her succumbing to "Popery" than to nativism.) The author meticulously collates, and limits himself to, documented historical data, yet does not hesitate to draw broader, thoughtful conclusions, always delineating the border between provable fact and well-founded projection. This is a work of both socio-psychological depth, and tremendous historic integrity. Whether you come to the book for interesting historical fact, or for deep insight into the nature of cultural intersections and conflicts, you will be well rewarded.… (més)
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