- Unbekannter Einband: 315 Seiten
- Verlag: Knopf (29. März 1994)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0679759611
- ISBN-13: 978-0679759614
- ASIN: 0394557824
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,1 x 16,3 x 3,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.3 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (9 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 847.331 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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From an obscure and isolated event, Demos (History/Yale), a Bancroft Prize-winning historian (Entertaining Satan, not reviewed) explodes the easy oppositions between Christian and savage, Indian and white, nature and civilization--oppositions on which the narrative of colonial American history has traditionally been built. In 1704, Mohawk Indians, converted to Catholicism by Jesuit missionaries, allied with the French settlers in Canada, attacked the frontier village of Deerfield, Massachusetts, killing 50 of the very young and old and kidnapping 112 more. They then marched the prisoners to Canada, killing 20 more women and several children along the way as acts of mercy, including the wife and infant son of John Williams, a Puritan minister and a prize hostage. While he and his surviving sons were ultimately released, his daughter, Eunice, who was seven at the time of her capture, remained with her captors, converted to Catholicism, and at the age of 16 married an Indian, with whose people she chose to spend the rest of her life. Among Demos's narrative achievements is his representation of the religious, cultural, political, economic, and psychological orientations that collided in this episode, the web of fears, justifications, and powers revealed in the process of encounter: the Puritan fear of the wilderness, the English fear of the French, the Jesuit missionary fever, the French-Canadian greed, the Indian interpretation of Christianity, and the arrogance with which Puritans interpreted a massacre as an expression of God's will, of redemption and resurrection. This thought-provoking study explores the multiple communities to which apparently simple people belonged and how their domestic lives were overtaken by political events. Fascinating, lively, and especially timely to an age struggling to understand the implications of its own cross-cultural encounters. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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"A masterpiece...recovering for us the poignant story of lives and families shattered and then painfully knitted together again in the complex cultural encounters between English, French, and Mohawk peoples in eighteenth-century America. There is nothing quite like it in our literature. It is a stunning achievement that should change forever the way we write and tell stories about the American past."--William Cronon
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DEERFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS. October I703. Harvest over. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Format:Taschenbuch
Normally, the genre of historical fiction is a very interesting read. However, in this book, it is, for lack of a better term, quite boring. If you're looking for a breezy read, this isn't the book you want. If you're looking for accuracy and a story that may be better in movie form, here's your screenplay. Demos' format of breaking up the flow of the book with actual quotes, manuscripts, and other correspondence really takes away from what could be an interesting and quite intriguing story of an upscale colonial Massachusetts family torn apart when a daughter is not "redeemed" from her savage captors and in fact assimilates their culture. Good story...Bad reading.
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Some historians manage to convey facts; some to convey feelings. Few, such as Barbara Tuchman and John Demos, take you into the lives of real people who experienced actual events and guide you to an understanding of what it must have been like to participate in the times they describe. The details provided in this book stayed with me and have fueled my understanding of "displaced persons" in other environments. Truly a fabulous achievement.
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This book began very well but soon turned into a tedious disappointment. First of all, the subject is very interesting and Demos is very knowledgeable about the period. He's picked a theme -- the kidnapping of a young Puritan girl who elects to stay with her Canadian-Indian captors near Montreal -- which is loaded with potential for illuminating the inter-cultural dynamics of early America.
I have to conclude that Demos' occupation -- he is an academic historian -- severely interferes with his ability to write an interesting and absorbing book. Certain of the sections -- the account of the initial Indian/French attack on the Puritan settlement and also his description of Iroquois culture -- are fascinating. But that accounts for about a quarter of the book. The rest consists of these interminable exigeses of tedious Puritan texts. It's as if he can't suddenly forgets he's not writing some unreadable article for a specialized historical journal but for the general reader. The book should have been at least a 100 pages shorter.
I also have problems with his style, which too often relies on melodramatic, precious flourishes. That's OK, but he repeats the same ones over and over (and over) again.
Finally, Demos launches into the book not with the subject matter (which is why the reader is reading the book after all) but with an apologia for not writing more "serious" history (as if writing a quasi-popular book -- it is by no means for the unsophisticated reader -- required an apology).
In sum, I learned quite a bit, but the book turned into a chore.
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This is, without doubt, one of the worst books I have ever read. It has been several years since I finished it, so I am sorry that I cannot cite specific examples in this review. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. März 2000 von Kathleen F. Lamantia
What? No Statistics?
I found this book in my husband's library while we were moving and I quite enjoyed it. I've read John Demos' work before and have always found him to be an interesting historian... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 9. April 1999 veröffentlicht
Fascinating on many levels--personal to historical
Brings the history of an obscure event to the reader in a way that makes one want to learn more. The study of history can suffer from failure to integrate events into the full... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. November 1998 veröffentlicht
A family story from early America
This book is an example of petite histoire, the account of particular households and villages, set in the larger context of early colonial New England. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. Oktober 1998 von fbm@northnet.com
A story of Colonial New England.
This book is a fine example of petite histoire, the account of particular households and villages, set in the larger context of early colonial New England. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. Mai 1998 von fbm@northnet.com
A family history more compelling than any novel
While Demos's book focuses on Eunice Williams, the "unredeemed captive" who, unlike other family memory members, chose not to return to New England following her... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 14. Dezember 1997 von M. Feldman
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