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  • Ways of Writing

    The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England

    door David D. Hall ...
    Serie series Material Texts
    Writers abounded in seventeenth-century New England. From the moment of colonization and constantly thereafter, hundreds of people set pen to paper in the course of their lives, some to write letters that others recopied, some to compose sermons as part of their life work as ministers, dozens to attempt verse, and many more to narrate a remarkable experience, provide written testimony to a civil ... Meer lezen

    23,73 €

  • Ways of Writing

    The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England

    door David D. Hall ...
    Serie series Material Texts
    Writers abounded in seventeenth-century New England. From the moment of colonization and constantly thereafter, hundreds of people set pen to paper in the course of their lives, some to write letters that others recopied, some to compose sermons as part of their life work as ministers, dozens to attempt verse, and many more to narrate a remarkable experience, provide written testimony to a civil ... Meer lezen

    27,97 €

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    King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

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