John Demos
Biographic Data
| ID | 79279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Demos |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Demos |
| SIGNATURE | DEMOS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 152 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Illuminating History
Is it possible that Bernard Bailyn, whose scholarly work continued virtually to the end of his very long life two years ago, still has important things to say to us about history?It's not only possible; it's actual, it's happened. Bailyn's final book, Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades, published last summer, is a great historian's last will and testament, a gift of extraordinary generosity to all those who have admired, and b…
Artful History
The Pigtail War
What Goes around Comes around
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Afterword
Historical fiction now comprises a kind of interdisciplinary borderland, to which historians, novelists and literature scholars have come in growing numbers. Each group brings its own set of preoccupations and priorities. For historians a key issue is the difference between provable 'knowledge' and deeper forms of 'understanding'. Keywords: FictionHistoryEvidenceKnowledgeUnderstandingImagination
Circles and Lines
Demos offers a portrait of how colonial Americans viewed their life experiences. The earliest settlers lived in a traditional world of natural cycles that shaped their behavior. During the transitional world of the American Revolution, people began to see their society with a linear world view.
Using Self, Using History
Journal Article Using Self, Using History ... Get access John Demos John Demos Professor of History Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 1, June 2002, Pages 37–42, https://doi.org/10.2307/2700781 Published: 01 June 2002
The Times of Their Lives
Notes on Life since A Little Commonwealth
A Little Commonwealth
The year 2000 marked the 30th anniversary of the publication of this title. The study examines the family in the context of the colony founded by the Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower. Basing his work on physical artifacts, wills, estate inventories, and a variety of legal and official enactments, the author portrays the family as a structure of roles and relationships, emphasizing those of husband and wife, parent and child, and master and…
A little commonwealth
This text examines the family in the context of the colony founded by the Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower. Demos portrays the family as a structure of roles and relationships of man and wife, parent and child and master and servant.
Furnishings
This chapter examines the furnishings of the Pilgrims settlers in Plymouth Colony during the Old Colony period. The households of Plymouth varied along a wide range with respect to the possession of material objects, and the inventories show a clear trend throughout the 70-year span of Plymouth Colony toward more ample and more diversified physical possessions. Tables and chairs were present in most Old Colony households, but in rather limited nu…
The Unredeemed Captive
The Unredeemed Captive
The Unredeemed Captive
Interview With
Born in 1937, reared and educated mainly in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Demos is a leading social historian of early America. He has published a widely known account of early Plymouth, an anthology of primary sources on colonial culture, a co‐edited collection of essays on family history, and numerous scholarly articles on social history and psychohistory, some of which he included in a volume on family history and public policy. He received the Fr…
Past, Present, and Personal
Journal Article Past, Present, and Personal: The Family and the Life Course in American History. By John Demos. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. xiii + 215 pp. $17.95.) Get access Robert V. Wells Robert V. Wells Union College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 489–490, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900042 Published: 01 September 1987
Past, Present, and Personal
A major contribution to the rapidly growing literature on family history, this book ranges over the whole of American history to cover subjects from the changing nature of fatherhood to the relevance of the past for present-day policy-making. It raises important, and often controversial questions. Students of American social history, particularly family history; sociologists and social anthropologists
Past, Present, and Personal
On “psychosocial” history
Witchcraft in New England Society
Entertaining Satan. Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his ori…
Entertaining Satan
Words and Things
The matter of empire. Metaphysics and mining in colonial Peru
The matter of empire. Metaphysics and mining in colonial Peru." Colonial Latin American Review, 28(4), pp. 591–592
A Little Commonwealth
Journal Article A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony. By John Demos. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. xvi + 201 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, appendix, and index. $6.75.) Get access Robert Middlekauff Robert Middlekauff University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 57, Issue 2, September 1970, Pages 404–405, https://doi.…
Entertaining Satan. Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his ori…
Adolescence in Historical Perspective
Adolescence, as we know it, was barely recognized before the end of the last century. An examination of various written materials from the period 1800-1875 uncovers (1) almost no usage of the word and (2) only a limited degree of concern with the stage (and its characteristic behaviors). About 1900, however, G. Stanley Hall and his students made adolescence the focus of a new current of psychological study. Their work evoked a broad popular respo…
Past, Present, and Personal
A major contribution to the rapidly growing literature on family history, this book ranges over the whole of American history to cover subjects from the changing nature of fatherhood to the relevance of the past for present-day policy-making. It raises important, and often controversial questions. Students of American social history, particularly family history; sociologists and social anthropologists
Entertaining Satan
Journal Article Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. By John Putnam Demos. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. xiv + 543 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendix, notes, and indexes. $25.00.) Get access Michael McGiffert Michael McGiffert Institute of Early American History and Culture Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 2, September…
Afterword
Historical fiction now comprises a kind of interdisciplinary borderland, to which historians, novelists and literature scholars have come in growing numbers. Each group brings its own set of preoccupations and priorities. For historians a key issue is the difference between provable 'knowledge' and deeper forms of 'understanding'. Keywords: FictionHistoryEvidenceKnowledgeUnderstandingImagination
Past, Present, and Personal
Journal Article Past, Present, and Personal: The Family and the Life Course in American History. By John Demos. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. xiii + 215 pp. $17.95.) Get access Robert V. Wells Robert V. Wells Union College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 489–490, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900042 Published: 01 September 1987
Families in Colonial Bristol, Rhode Island
N _o aspect of early American history has been more badly served by unsystematic, impressionistic methods of handling source materials than the whole vast area of family life. Our understanding of the subject has begun from a set of assumptions sustained chiefly by the force of a venerable popular folklore. Many of them can be tested in quite simple numerical terms, yet only very recently has the effort to do so even been started. Perhaps the bes…
A Little Commonwealth
Entertaining Satan
The Morphology of New England Society in the Colonial Period
Old Age in Early New England
Using Self, Using History
Journal Article Using Self, Using History ... Get access John Demos John Demos Professor of History Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 1, June 2002, Pages 37–42, https://doi.org/10.2307/2700781 Published: 01 June 2002
A Little Commonwealth
George Caleb Bingham
"The Antislavery Movement and the Problem of Violent "Means
FROM the very beginning of the antislavery movement the question of violence was significant and more or less pressing. It arose as a matter of course, whenever means were considered. Would the slaves be justified in resorting to insurrection, in order to secure their freedom? What sort of pressure should the North bring to bear upon Southerners? What was the proper reaction to anti-abolition mobs? The answers which antislavery men gave to these …
Notes on Life in Plymouth Colony
George Caleb Bingham
Pilgrim Colony
Wayward Puritans
Families in Colonial Bristol, Rhode Island
N _o aspect of early American history has been more badly served by unsystematic, impressionistic methods of handling source materials than the whole vast area of family life. Our understanding of the subject has begun from a set of assumptions sustained chiefly by the force of a venerable popular folklore. Many of them can be tested in quite simple numerical terms, yet only very recently has the effort to do so even been started. Perhaps the bes…
Adolescence in Historical Perspective
Adolescence, as we know it, was barely recognized before the end of the last century. An examination of various written materials from the period 1800-1875 uncovers (1) almost no usage of the word and (2) only a limited degree of concern with the stage (and its characteristic behaviors). About 1900, however, G. Stanley Hall and his students made adolescence the focus of a new current of psychological study. Their work evoked a broad popular respo…
Demographic Studies
A Little Commonwealth
Journal Article A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony. By John Demos. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. xvi + 201 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, appendix, and index. $6.75.) Get access Robert Middlekauff Robert Middlekauff University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 57, Issue 2, September 1970, Pages 404–405, https://doi.…
A Little Commonwealth
Developmental Perspectives on the History of Childhood
Developmental Perspectives on the History of Childhood Among the shifting currents of scholarly inquiry it is possible to discern a growing interest in the study of in times past. A number of historians have undertaken detailed research into particular aspects of this subject; some of their projects are now complete, others are still in progress.1 The major professional organizations have recently included such work in the programs of their annua…
The Morphology of New England Society in the Colonial Period
A Little Commonwealth
Remarkable Providences
A Little Commonwealth
Reflections on the History of the Family
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A New Record of American Civilization
Colonial History
Their Solitary Way
Journal Article Their Solitary Way: The Puritan Social Ethic in the First Century of Settlement in New England. By Stephen Foster. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971. xxii + 214 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $7.50.) Get access John Demos John Demos Center for Psychosocial Studies, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 2, Septemb…
John Godfrey and His Neighbors
T N the long roster of early New Englanders accused of witchcraft, John | Godfrey invites attention for one special reason: he was male. To be sure, other men were accused at various times, and four or five were executed, but most of them were husbands of female witches.' Given the overall prominence of women in witchcraft cases, it thus seems probable that the charges against these men arose as a secondary or derivative matter. Traditional' lore…
Old Age in Early New England
Following the Life Course
Words and Things
New England's Inner Demons
Entertaining Satan
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