New England Nation

Out of European revolutions and social upheaval, an extraordinary society of literate, pious, and prosperous English Puritans flowered in seventeenth-century New England. This wonderfully readable history recreates the world of Puritan New England and places it in the broad sweep of history. The book provides a fascinating look into Puritan society, with sailors, sinners, women, children, and Native Americans joining the usual Puritan ministers of the seventeenth century. Combining remarkable primary sources with an enjoyable narrative, this book reveals the New England Nation in its fullness and complexity, and reveals striking parallels with the America of today.

Bruce C. Daniels is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at San Antonio, has been a Professor of History at the University of Winnipeg; chair of the Department and professor of History at Texas Tech University; and Gilbert M. Denman Endowed Professor of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is the author of numerous books including Living with Stalin's Ghost: A Fulbright Memoir of Moscow and the New Russia; Puritans at Play: Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England; and The Connecticut Town: Growth and Development, 1635-1790. A dual citizen of the Canada and the United States, Daniels was the past president of the Canadian Association for American Studies and past editor of the Canadian Review of American Studies. In 1994, he was a senior Fulbright Scholar at Duke University and in 2005, he held the Fulbright Chair at Moscow State University in Russia.