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701360
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b523549
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Little, Ann M
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| Title & Author
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Abraham in arms : : war and gender in colonial New England /\ Ann M. Little
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| Publication Statement
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Philadelphia :: University of Pennsylvania Press,, 2007
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| Series Statement
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Early American studies
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262 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0812219619
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: 0812239652
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: 9780812219616
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: 9780812239652
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-251) and index
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| Contents
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List of wars of the Northeastern Borderlands, 1636-1763 -- Onward Christian soldiers, 1678 -- "You dare not fight, you are all one like women": the contest of masculinities in the seventeenth century -- "What are you an Indian or an English-man?" Cultural cross-dressing in the northeastern borderlands -- "Insolent" squaws and "unreasonable" masters: Indian captivity and family life -- "A Jesuit will ruin you body & soul!" Daughters of New England in Canada -- "Who will be masters of America the French or the English?" Manhood and imperial warfare in the eighteenth century -- Epilogue: on the plains of Abraham
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"In a reinterpretation of the years between 1620 and 1763, Ann M. Little reveals how ideas about gender and family life were central to the ways people in colonial New England, and their neighbors in New France and Indian Country, described their experiences in cross-cultural warfare. Little argues that English, French, and Indian people had broadly similar ideas about gender and authority. Because they understood both warfare and political power to be intertwined expressions of manhood, colonial warfare may be understood as a contest of different styles of masculinity
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For New England men, what had once been a masculinity based on household headship, Christian piety, and the duty to protect family and faith became one built around the more abstract notions of British nationalism, anti-Catholicism, and soldiering for the Empire." "Based on archival research in both French and English sources, court records, captivity narratives, and the private correspondence of ministers and war officials, Abraham in Arms reconstructs colonial New England as a frontier borderland in which religious, cultural, linguistic, and geographic boundaries were permeable, fragile, and contested by Europeans and Indians alike."--Jacket
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English-- New England-- History-- 18th century
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French-- New England-- History-- 18th century
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Frontier and pioneer life-- New England
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Indians of North America-- New England-- History
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Masculinity-- New England-- History
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Sex role-- New England-- History
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New England, Ethnic relations
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New England, History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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New England, History, Military
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New England, Social conditions
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| Dewey Classification
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974/.02
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F7.L68 2007
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