Peoples of a spacious land : families and cultures in colonial New England
"In this book about families - those of the various native peoples of southern New England and those of the English settlers and their descendants - Gloria Main compares the ways in which the two cultures went about solving common problems. Main finds that the transplanted English family system produced descendants who were unusually healthy and spectacularly fecund. She follows the two cultures into the eighteenth century and makes clear how the promise of perpetual accessions of new land eventually extended Puritan family culture across much of the North American continent."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, 2001
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2001