Damnable Heresy: William Pynchon, the Indians, and the First Book Banned (and Burned) in Boston

Damnable Heresy: William Pynchon, the Indians, and the First Book Banned (and Burned) in Boston
ISBN-10
1630877611
ISBN-13
9781630877613
Category
History
Pages
268
Language
English
Published
2015-01-19
Publisher
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Author
David M. Powers

Description

Misunderstandings between races, hostilities between cultures. Anxiety from living in a time of war in one's own land. Being accused of profiteering when food was scarce. Unruly residents in a remote frontier community. Charged with speaking the unspeakable and publishing the unprintable. All of this can be found in the life of one man--William Pynchon, the Puritan entrepreneur and founder of Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1636. Two things in particular stand out in Pynchon's pioneering life: he enjoyed extraordinary and uniquely positive relationships with Native peoples, and he wrote the first book banned--and burned--in Boston. Now for the first time, this book provides a comprehensive account of Pynchon's story, beginning in England, through his New England adventures, to his return home. Discover the fabric of his times and the roles Pynchon played in the Puritan venture in Old England and New England.

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