Reviewed by Erik R. Seeman | Book Review | The William and Mary Quarterly, 60.2

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Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century. By RICHARD ARCHER . Revisiting New England: The New Regionalism. (Hanover, N. H., and London: University Press of New England, 2001. Pp. xii, 230. $50.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.)

Reviewed by Erik R. Seeman, State University of New York at Buffalo

"The builders of the Bay Colony and of all New England," Richard Archer asserts in Fissures in the Rock, "were a diverse people" (p. 3). Aiming to study women as well as men, Indians as well as English, the lukewarm as well as the hotter sort of Protestants, Archer contends that the residents of seventeenth-century New England were "divided by status, gender, wealth, age, type of town in which they lived, occupation, religious beliefs, power, aspirations, opportunities, and ethnicity" (p. 153). New England was far from the homogeneous laboratory suggested by Perry Miller in The New England Mind: From Colony to Province (1953). There was, however, a common New England culture, a "coherent whole" (p. 153) that made this time and place distinctive. . . .

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