| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

The World of John Winthrop: Essays on England and New England, 1588–1649. Ed. by Francis J. Bremer and Lynn A. Botelho. (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2005. viii, 408 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-934909-88-1.)

Two observations come readily to mind about this collection of eight essays by American and English scholars. Seven of the entries are revisions of papers originally given at a 1999 conference at Millersville University, Pennsylvania, that marked the 350th anniversary of the death of John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and "a man who symbolized the trans-Atlantic character of puritanism" (p. 6). The first observation would be that as an exercise in "Atlantic history," acknowledged as not an entirely new field, the collection as a whole is a grand success. The new essay written especially for this volume, "England's 'Others' in the Old and New Worlds," by Alden T. Vaughan and Virginia Mason Vaughan, for example, suggests the consequences of New England's founding in the midst of a century-long self-puffery by English when they compared themselves with "others." Those others could be fellow Europeans, who they regarded as not so bad, and Africans and Indians, who were beyond the pale, as it were. New Englanders were in the main quite in tune with their countrymen as to the necessary "separateness," social and otherwise, natural to such a circumstance. The larger Atlantic view works very well here.

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