| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.1

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Canada and the United States

Richard Archer. Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century. (Revisiting New England.) Hanover: University Press of New England, for the University of New Hampshire. 2001. Pp. x, 230. Cloth $50.00, paper $19.95.

Over the past half century, scholars have approached the elephant that is New England's early history from different directions, probing variously into the life of its minds and the condition of its bodies, human and politic. Recent cultural studies—of New England's orality, devotional practices, intellectual aristocracy, and popular belief—have given new vigor and direction to a scholarly tradition made famous by the work of Perry Miller. But they have also inadvertently reinforced an image of the region as one set apart, holding to a distinct "New England way" and hence less consequential than English colonies further south for exploring such major themes of subsequent American history as race relations, labor practices, and the embrace of religious and political pluralism. Richard Archer's compact and engaging book disagrees. Grafting his own extensive research onto the findings of a generation of social historians, he argues that, despite sharing many strands of a common culture, seventeenth-century New England was a place of marked diversity and difference. . . .

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