[PDF.91cz] Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England (Early American Studies)

Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England (Early American Studies)

[PDF.oz88] Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England (Early American Studies)

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 | #1193994 in Books |  University of Pennsylvania Press |  2007-06-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.62 x5.98l,.93 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Original and Brilliant Scholarship|By Customer|Abraham in Arms takes a totally original approach to early New England history. By bringing a gendered analysis to fields of war, cultural contact, and New England community formation, Little shows how concepts of masculinity were inseparable from early Americans attempts to colonize a New World. Whether talking about war, about| ||"This innovative and thought-provoking analysis of why New Englanders and Indians went to war, and how they interpreted their experiences in war, effectively reshapes our perspectives of culture and society on the early New England frontier."—Journal

In 1678, the Puritan minister Samuel Nowell preached a sermon he called "Abraham in Arms," in which he urged his listeners to remember that "Hence it is no wayes unbecoming a Christian to learn to be a Souldier." The title of Nowell's sermon was well chosen. Abraham of the Old Testament resonated deeply with New England men, as he embodied the ideal of the householder-patriarch, at once obedient to God and the unquestioned leader of his family and his people in war an...

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