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Title: The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony by James Deetz, Patricia Scott Deetz ISBN: 0-385-72153-6 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 16 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: really good
Comment: You get the feeling Deetz is a bit of an ass, true, but the book speaks for itself; it's sensational. He gets right to the heart of the matter in the first pages: the truth about Thanksgiving is nothing like the perception. He brings the truth out of a morass of lies. Even in this time of greater accuracy in history-telling, Deetz's book stands out as a particularly honest approach. Yes, English people were responsible for the annihilation of the native population; that much even Jerry Falwell would acknowledge. But the fact that we cover it up and celebrate it with Thanksgiving is the sad part.
There was a lot more happening in the 1620s than historians have allowed us to see.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Pilgrims through History, Myth and Archeology
Comment: James Deetz and Patricia Scott Deetz's The Times of Their Lives (Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony) looks at the somewhat misnamed Pilgrims, including much recent archeological scholarship along with the usual documentary evidence upon which most historians exclusively rely. They show a great respect for the nineteenth century created myths surrounding the pilgrims while at the same time deconstructing them to present as realistic picture of this time as current research will allow. Along the way, they touch upon crime, sex, marriage, material culture, and food to give a full picture of the lives lived in Plymouth Colony, both British and Indian. The authors manage to make all of the archeological information quite palatable to the average reader. A nice read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Essential Deetz
Comment: An absolutely wonderful, detail-filled account of early colonial America by one of the greatest archaeologists of our time. He will be missed.
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Title: Plymouth Colony: Its History and People by Eugene Aubrey Stratton ISBN: 0916489183 Publisher: Ancestry.com Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Plymouth Plantation 1620 - 1647 by William Bradford ISBN: 0075542811 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 01 February, 1981 List Price(USD): $13.44 |
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Title: In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life by James Deetz ISBN: 0385483996 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Mayflower Pilgrims : Roots of Puritan, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and Baptist Heritage by David Beale ISBN: 188989351X Publisher: Emerald House Group Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Martin's Hundred by Ivor Noel Hume ISBN: 0813913233 Publisher: University Press of Virginia Pub. Date: 01 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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