{"product_id":"little-commonwealth-family-life-in-plymouth-colony-9780195128901","title":"Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony","description":"The year 2000 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of \u003cem\u003eA Little Commonwealth\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eMayflower\u003c\/em\u003e. Basing his work on physical artifacts, wills, estate inventories, and a variety of legal and official enactments, Demos portrays the family as a structure of roles and relationships, emphasizing those of husband and wife, parent and child, and master and servant. The book's most startling insights come from a reconsideration of commonly-held views of American Puritans and of the ways in which they dealt with one another. Demos concludes that Puritan repression was not as strongly directed against sexuality as against the expression of hostile and aggressive impulses, and he shows how this pattern reflected prevalent modes of family life and child-rearing. The result is an in-depth study of the ordinary life of a colonial community, located in the broader environment of seventeenth-century America.\u003cbr\u003eDemos has provided a new foreword and a list of further reading for this second edition, which will offer a new generation of readers access to this classic study.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Demos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/09\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195128901\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Demos\u003c\/strong\u003e is Samuel Knight Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eEntertaining Satan\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Bancroft Prize, and \u003cem\u003eThe Unredeemed Capture.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40422143950963,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":31.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_255218cd-0ef6-47dd-a242-8c53c0d9901b.jpg?v=1662471550","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/little-commonwealth-family-life-in-plymouth-colony-9780195128901","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}