books by John Putnam Demos

books by John Putnam Demos

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John Putnam Demos

Past, Present, and Personal: The Family and the Life Course in American History
John Putnam Demos

Oxford University Press, USA, 1986

The author of a landmark study of Pilgrim family life called A Little Commonwealth and the Bancroft Prizewinning Entertaining Satan here presents a major contribution to the rapidly growing literature on "family history." Ranging over the entire span of American History, this book covers everything from the changing nature of fatherhood the ...

The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America

John Putnam Demos

Vintage, 1995

The extraordinary tale and religious journey of a New England girl
A walk through the shady streets of Old Deerfield, Massachusetts, presents many fine views -- the stately old homes, the colonial doorways, the lonely Union Army sentinel atop the town's sandstone monument, and Frank Boyden's splendid prep school, Deerfield Academy. A ...

A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony (Galaxy Books)

John Putnam Demos

Oxford University Press, USA, 1971

A Classic Study that Redefined the Pilgrims
I first read this book while in graduate school during the late 1970s, and I am glad it has been reissued in this new edition. John Demos was one of a group of "new social historians" in the latter 1960s that made colonial New England his domain and reinterpreted what ...

Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England

John Putnam Demos

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

Entertaining Satan is Fun
Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England is an example of cultural and psychological history done within the realm of the witchraft phenomenon in early New England. In his book, the author effectively ties in all the data possible ...