New Light on the Old Colony

Plymouth, the Dutch Context of Toleration, and Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41384-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1029 g

Reihe: Early American History Series

Colonial government, Pilgrims, the New England town, Native land, the background of religious toleration, and the changing memory recalling the Pilgrims – all are examined and stereotypical assumptions overturned in 15 essays by the foremost authority on the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony.

Thorough research revises the story of colonists and of the people they displaced. Bangs’ book is required reading for the history of New England, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Natives, the Mennonite contribution to religious toleration in Europe and New England, and the history of commemoration, from paintings and pageants to living history and internet memes. If Pilgrims were radical, so is this book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bangs, Jeremy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Section 1: The Old Colony

Part 1: The Colony

1Plymouth’s Creation: A Congregational Commonwealth

1The Mayflower Compact gave Structure to Plymouth Colony’s Society

2The Mayflower Compact: Lastingly Significant and Influential, or Temporarily Expedient and Forgotten?

3Creating a Consensual Commonwealth

4The Mayflower Compact as the Cornerstone and Framework of Plymouth Colony Constitutionalism

5Dividing the Land, the First New Towns, and Other Democratic Choices

6Plymouth’s Expanded Constitution of 1636, More Towns and Churches, and the Shift to Representative Government

7Churches, Government, Toleration, and Quakers

8Representation by Selectmen, Taxation supporting Churches

9Conclusion

2Tribes and Land Reserves in Plymouth Colony

1Empty New England

2Not Really Empty

3Pokanoket

4Nauset

5Nemasket

6The Massachusetts

7Narragansetts

8Intrigue and Death

9Tribal Land, Tribal Losses

10Nauset, Manomet, and the Mashpee Reserve

11The Pokanoket Indians and the Mount Hope (Montaup) Reserve

12The Massachusetts and the Titicut Reserve

13The Wampanoag

3William Bradford’s Sources for Dutch Law: Edward Grimeston and Emanuel van Meteren

1Civil Marriage in Holland – Edward Grimeston

2King James i and Church Reform – Emanuel van Meteren

3The Union of Utrecht and the Act of Abjuration

4Constructing History

4Intellectual Baggage: The Useful Pilgrims and the Culture of Plymouth Colony

1Death Preceded Them

2Bibles

3Psalm Books

4Theology

5Exegesis

6Piety

7Religious Polemics

8History

9Other

5Towards a Revision of the Pilgrims: Three New Pictures

1Background

2A New Departure

3A New Plymouth?

4Another Portrait of Edward Winslow

Part 2: The Towns

6Scituate: Excerpts from the Introductions to the Seventeenth-Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts

1Studying Families in Context: The New Antiquarianism

2Scituate’s Reality and Historiographical Myths

3What kind of town was Scituate? Historians provide answers

4Topics of Conversation

5Business and craft production in Scituate: Ships and Shipping

6Mills, Fishing, Furniture, and Other Work

7Misbehavior

8Prices, Wages, and Livestock

9Some Conclusions

7Eastham Town Records Introduction

1Eastham’s Native Leaders and the First Colonists

8Sandwich Town Records Introduction

9Marshfield Town Records Introduction

1The Sufferings of Arthur Howland

Section 2: The Dutch Context of Toleration

10Dutch Aid to Persecuted Swiss and Palatine Mennonites, 1615–1699

1Persecution, Reports, Response, and Remembrance

2Doctrinal Bickering Amidst Persecution – 1614

3Dutch Aid Begins (1640’s)

4Isaac Hattavier’s Attempts to Help (1637–1658)

5Hans Vlamingh’s Contacts and Dutch Government Intercession (1650’s and 1660’s)

61663 Extract of List of the Names of Mennonite Prisoners

7Philipp von Zesen’s Book, Against the Coercion of Conscience(1665)

8Hans Vlamingh, Galenus Abrahamsz. de Haan, Jacob Everling, and Valentin Huetwohl: Disaster Relief in 1671–1672

9The Disaster Year, 1672

10Galenus Abrahamsz. de Haan, William Penn, and David Holtzhalb

11Philippus van Limborch and John Locke’s ‘Letter on Toleration’ (1685–1689)

12Mennonite Relief during the War of the Grand Alliance

11Dutch Contributions to Religious Toleration

1Adriaen van der Donck and the Absence of Toleration in New Netherland

2Why did English People in 1657 Think there was Religious Freedom in Holland?

3Dutch Sources for Ideas on Toleration in Plymouth Colony and Rhode Island

4Dutch International Pleas for Toleration among Protestants

5Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration

Section 3: Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration

12The Triumph of the Pilgrims

1First-Person Fun

13The Hypothetical Nature of Plimoth Plantation’s Architecture

1Fashionable Modes of Memory

2The background

31947–1966: Plimoth Plantation’s Pilgrims as Prototypical Suburbanites

41967–1985: Pilgrims as Folk

51986–2000: Pilgrims as Identifiably Ethnic

62000–now: Pilgrims as Representative of their Class

7Hypothetical Nature

8Hypothetical Future

9Postscript 2019

14Always More Pilgrim Books

1The Primary Sources for the Pilgrim Story

2Nineteenth-century Histories

3Twentieth-century Repetition and Revision

4Into the Future – Pilgrims 2000 and Beyond

5Where Do We Go Next?

15Thanksgiving on the Net: Roast Bull with Cranberry Sauce

1Talking Turkey

2The Text

3Thanking Whom?

4Colored Clothes, No Buckled Hats! My Goodness!

5And, Yes, They did Call Themselves “Pilgrims.”

6The Fake Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1623

7The Libertarian’s First Thanksgiving

8A Cornucopia of Grievances

9The National Day of Mourning

10Genocide

11Lies My Teacher’s Telling Me Now

Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs: A List of Publications Concerning the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony

Books – Author or editor of

Book Chapters

Lemmas

Articles

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jeremy Bangs, Ph.D. (Leiden, 1976) is Director of the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum; former Visiting Curator of Manuscripts, Pilgrim Hall Museum; Chief Curator, Plimoth Plantation; Curator, Leiden Pilgrim Documents Center. Author of over 20 books including Strangers and Pilgrims, Travellers and Sojourners (2009).