Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England

by Gloria L. Main

Book Overview

In this book about families--those of the various native peoples of southern New England and those of the English settlers and their descendants--Gloria Main compares the ways in which the two cultures went about solving common human problems. Using original sources--diaries, inventories, wills, court records--as well as the findings of demographers, ethnologists, and cultural anthropologists, she compares the family life of the English colonists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674016025
• ISBN13: 9780674016026
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"