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Article: Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America.(Book review)
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- September 22, 2007
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Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America. By Joseph A. Conforti. (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 236. $19.95.)
The author of this book provides an overview of New England history in the colonial period. He has synthesized a vast body of scholarly literature in a noble effort to be comprehensive and up-to-date, yet brief. The result, alas, is an overly condensed text that is unnecessarily abstract and often colorless.
Chapters advance chronologically, beginning with a survey of the region's indigenous peoples prior to colonization, then proceeding through the settlement periods, King Philip's War, and ...