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Colonial America BookNotes John Putnam Demos (1937-) A Little race: Family Life in Plymouth Colony NY: Oxford UP, 1970. xvi + 201 p. Ill.: 15 photos (btw. 108-09). Appendix: demographic tables (191-94). Bibliographical footnotes, index (195-201). ISBN: 0195128907 (1999 ed.) Thesis: A familie is a lilliputian church building, and a little commonwealth, at least a raffish representation thereof, whereby triall may be made of such as argon fit for any place of authoritie, or of fealty in Church or commonwealth. Or rather it is as a schoole wherein the first principles and grounds of government and subjection are learned: whereby men are fitted to greater matters in Church or commonwealth. --- Epigraph by William Gouge, Of Domesticall Duties (London, 1622) BookNotes Reviews: Henretta, James A. The Morphology of fresh England parliamentary procedure in the Colonial Period. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2.2 (Autumn 1971): 379-398. The prevailing historiographical theme since about 1900 has been the decline of English traditions in the New World wilderness. Frederick Jackson Turner and Perry Miller formulated the declension theory that English customs, institutions, and ideas were disintegrating in America, a theory with jingoistic implications.

The declension theory proposes that the English colonists were religious peasants who instituted medievalistic communal plantations that were inescapably transformed by the American environment, a social agitate that culminated in the American Revolution. In A Little Commonwealth, Demos provides black artifacts to demonstrate the transforming social existence of the 1620 Plymouth settlement until its demise in the 1691 Massachusetts charter incorporating Plymouth. Demos describes the small rustic houses and presents some mash cases involving families, then discuss the effects of the crowded conditions on the outsize families. He suggests that the colonists were forced by these conditions to displace their natural... If you want to originate a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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