A01=John Winthrop
Author_John Winthrop
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Product details
- ISBN 9780674484276
- Weight: 526g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1997
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The journal of Governor John Winthrop, one of the key documents of early New England history, records the first two crucial decades of the Bay Colony. Writing in a precise expository style, Winthrop details the myriad religious and political problems of the new settlement. The modernized abridgment incorporates about 40 percent of the text and includes a copy of Winthrop’s sermon, “A Model of Christian Charity.” This abridged edition, complete with introduction and annotations, also modernizes the governor’s spelling and punctuation.
Richard S. Dunn is Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his publications are Sugar and Slaves in 1972; The Papers of William Penn, edited with Mary Maples Dunn, in four volumes published in 1981–1987; and The Journal of John Winthrop, edited with Laetitia Yeandle, published in 1996. He also designed the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and was its founding director. Laetitia Yeandle is Curator of Manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
