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092 0  973|bengelska 
100 1  Gaskill, Malcolm|4aut 
245 10 Between two worlds :|bhow the English became Americans /
       |cMalcolm Gaskill 
250    First edition 
264  1 Oxford :|bOxford University Press,|c2014 
264  4 |c©2014 
300    xxiii, 484 pages|billustrations, maps|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and bibliography and 
       index 
520    'Between Two Worlds' is a story teeming with people on the
       move, making decisions, indulging or resisting their 
       desires and dreams. In the 17th century a quarter of a 
       million men, women, and children left England's shores for
       America. Some were explorers and merchants, others 
       soldiers and missionaries; many were fugitives from 
       poverty and persecution. All, in their own way, were 
       adventurers, risking their lives and fortunes to make 
       something of themselves overseas. They irrevocably changed
       the land and indigenous peoples they encountered and their
       new world changed them. But that was only half the story. 
       The plantations established from Maine to the Caribbean 
       needed support at home, especially royal endorsement and 
       money, which made adventurers of English monarchs and 
       investors too. Attitudes to America were crucial, and 
       evolved as the colonies grew in size, prosperity, and self
       -confidence. Meanwhile, for those who had crossed the 
       ocean, America forced people to rethink the country in 
       which they had been raised, and to which they remained 
       attached after emigration. In tandem with new ideas about 
       the New World, migrants pondered their English mother 
       country's traditions and achievements, its problems and 
       its uncertain future in an age of war and revolution. 
       Using hundreds of letters, journals, reports, pamphlets 
       and contemporary books, Between Two Worlds recreates this 
       fascinating transatlantic history one which has often been
       neglected or misunderstood on both sides of the Atlantic 
       in the centuries since 
648  7 To 1783|2fast 
650  7 Civilization.|2fast 
650  7 Civilization|xEnglish influences.|2fast 
651  0 United States|xHistory|yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775 
651  0 United States|xCivilization|xEnglish influences 
651  0 United States|xCivilization|yTo 1783 
651  7 United States.|2fast 
655  7 History.|2fast