Crossing the Sound: The Rise of Atlantic American Communities in Seventeenth-Century Eastern Long Island

by Faren R. Siminoff

In seventeenth-century North America, communities on eastern Long Island were an integral part of the tumultuous and dynamic New England region and the larger Atlantic American world. They were created and modified by ideas and traditions that were inherent to life in Atlantic America and were not simply imported from Europe or established solely by settlers and imposed on native peoples.
In Crossing the Sound Faren R. Siminoff skillfully...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814798322
• ISBN13: 9780814798324
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"