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The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman PrizeIn this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of prope... Read More about Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

Nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavoured to "civilize" a "savage" native populace. There, in February 1704, a French ... Read More about The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America

The year 2000 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of A Little Commonwealth by Bancroft Prize-winning scholar John Demos. This groundbreaking study examines the family in the context of the colony founded by the Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower. Basing his work on physical artif... Read More about Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony

In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during t... Read More about Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England

Award-winning historian John Demos tells the astonishing and moving story of a unique missionary project, which probes the very roots of American identity.Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the United States looked outward to the wider world, a group of eminent Protestant ministers devised... Read More about The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic

In this riveting historical fiction narrative, National Book Award Finalist John Demos shares the story of a young Puritan girl and her life-changing experience with the Mohawk people. Inspired by Demos’s award-winning novel The Unredeemed Captive, Puritan Girl, Mohawk Girl will captivate a young au... Read More about Puritan Girl, Mohawk Girl: A Novel