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5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling and Engagingly Written, July 6, 2000
This review is from: By Nature and by Custom Cursed: Transatlantic Civil Discourse and New England Cultural Production, 1620-1660 (Civil Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives) (Paperback)
Pulling from many different disciplines and media (town records, letters, published literature, etc.), Phil Round examines the many different discourses that were swirling around New England when our American mindset started to coalesce. He finds that Puritanism, while a large part of our heritage, was not the only way of thinking present in the 17th century--we were much more varied and secular than is genererally represented in history.

Phil Round is an exceptional lecturer--funny and engaging as well as critically sound. His book very much mirrors his fine lectures.

Highly recommended. Would pair nicely with Philip Fisher's Still the New World for an American lit and culture syllabus.

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