Making haste from Babylon : the Mayflower pilgrims and their world : a new history
The Pilgrims were entrepreneurs as well as evangelicals, political radicals as well as Christian idealists. "Making Haste from Babylon" tells their story in unrivaled depth, from their roots in religious conflict and village strife at home to their final creation of a permanent foothold in America
Print Book, English, 2011, ©2010
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Vintage Books, New York, 2011, ©2010
History
xiv, 489 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
9780307386267, 0307386260
648922486
Prelude: The beaver of Mawooshen
pt. 1. The heavens and the sea
The year of the blazing star
Mr. Jones in Plymouth sound
Crossing Sinai
pt. 2. Origins
Troublechurch Browne
Men and women of the clay
The making of a pilgrim
pt. 3 Separation
The entrails of the King
Disobedience and contempt
Stallingborough flats
pt. 4. The project
The tomb of the Apostle
Why the pilgrims sailed
The beaver, the Cossack, and Prince Charles
In the artillery garden
pt. 5. America
Comfort and refreshing
The Mystic and the Thames
Diabolical affection
If Rochelle be lost
pt. 6. The ways of salvation
The prophecy of Micaiah
The first Bostonians
The exploding colony
Epilogue: The last shaman