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  • The Enemy Within

    A Short History of Witch-hunting

    by John Demos ...
    With the vision of a historian and the voice of a novelist, prize?winning author John Demos explores the social, cultural, and psychological roots of the scourge that is witch-hunting, both in the remote past and today. The Enemy Within chronicles the most prominent witch-hunts of the Western world?women and men who were targeted by suspicious neighbors and accused of committing horrific crimes by ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Puritan Girl, Mohawk Girl

    A Novel

    by John Demos ...
    In this riveting historical fiction narrative, National Book Award Finalist John Demos shares the story of a young Puritan girl and her life-changing experience with the Mohawk people.Inspired by Demos’s award-winning novel The Unredeemed Captive, Puritan Girl, Mohawk Girl will captivate a young audience, providing a Native American perspective rather than the Western one typically taught in the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Changes in the Land

    Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

    by William Cronon, John Demos ...
    The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.Winner of the Francis Parkman PrizeIn this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Unredeemed Captive

    A Family Story from Early America

    by John Demos ...
    Nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavoured to "civilize" a "savage" native populace. There, in February 1704, a French and Indian war party descended on the village of Deerfield, abducting a Puritan minister and his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Heathen School

    A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic

    by John Demos ...
    Longlisted for the 2014 National Book AwardThe astonishing story of a unique missionary project—and the America it embodied—from award-winning historian John Demos.Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the newly established United States looked outward toward the wider world, a group of eminent Protestant ministers formed a grand scheme for gathering the rest of mankind into the redemptive ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Little Commonwealth

    Family Life in Plymouth Colony

    by John Demos ...
    The year 2000 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of A Little Commonwealth by Bancroft Prize-winning scholar John Demos. This groundbreaking study examines the family in the context of the colony founded by the Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower. Basing his work on physical artifacts, wills, estate inventories, and a variety of legal and official enactments, Demos portrays the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • A Little Commonwealth

    Family Life in Plymouth Colony

    by John Demos ...
    The year 2000 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of A Little Commonwealth by Bancroft Prize-winning scholar John Demos. This groundbreaking study examines the family in the context of the colony founded by the Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower. Basing his work on physical artifacts, wills, estate inventories, and a variety of legal and official enactments, Demos portrays the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Artful History

    A Practical Anthology

    Edited by Aaron Sachs, John Demos ...
    Series series New Directions in Narrative History
    A collection of memorable, stirring, and eloquent historical essays, designed to help any historian write more artfullyIs there any reason that serious historical scholarship cannot receive literary expression? Isn’t it possible that the most committed empiricists and postmodernists might both achieve better results by thinking of writing as a craft, rather than just a means of packaging research? ... Read more

    $33.79 USD

  • Circles and Lines

    The Shape of Life in Early America

    by John Demos ...
    Series Book 14 - The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies
    In this intimate, engaging book, John Demos offers an illuminating portrait of how colonial Americans, from the first settlers to the postrevolutionary generation, viewed their life experiences. He also offers an invaluable inside look into the craft of a master social historian as he unearths--in sometimes unexpected places--fragments of evidence that help us probe the interior lives of people ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

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    The Unredeemed Captive

    A Family Story from Early America

    by John Demos ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 17 min

    The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavored to “civilize” a “savage” native populace.There, in February 1704, a French and Indian war party descended on the village of Deerfield, abducting a Puritan minister and his children. Although John Williams was eventually released, his daughter horrified ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Heathen School

    A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic

    by John Demos ...
    Narrated by Tom Weiner ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 30 min

    The astonishing story of a unique missionary project—and the America it embodied—from award-winning historian John DemosNear the start of the nineteenth century, as the newly established United States looked outward toward the wider world, a group of eminent Protestant ministers formed a grand scheme for gathering the rest of mankind into the redemptive fold of Christianity and "civilization." Its ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Puritan Girl, Mohawk Girl

    by John Demos ...
    Narrated by Christina Moore ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 55 min

    National Book Award finalist John Demos brings to life the compelling story of Eunice Williams, a Puritan girl who was captured and adopted by Native Americans In this riveting historical fiction narrative, National Book Award Finalist John Demos shares the story of a young Puritan girl and her life-changing experience with the Mohawk people. Inspired by Demos's award-winning novel The Unredeemed ... Read more

    $10.99 USD