Virginia Dejohn Anderson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 458657 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Virginia Dejohn Anderson |
| NOMBRES | Virginia Dejohn |
| APELLIDO | Anderson |
| FIRMA | ANDERSON V D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
From Robert Keayne to Angola, Richard, and Grace
WHEN Bernard Bailyn entered graduate school in 1946, studies of New England dominated the field of early American history, many of them produced by Harvard-trained scholars. Two of his teachers, Samuel Eliot Morison and Oscar Handlin, wrote their own—albeit very different—dissertations on Boston.1 Harvard students knew there were practical advantages in choosing a New England topic, since they could find abundant manuscript materials in nearby ar…
The Puritans
The Puritans: A Transatlantic History The Puritans: A Transatlantic History. By David D Hall. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. vi, 517 pp. Cloth, $35.00. Paper, $24.95.) Virginia DeJohn Anderson Virginia DeJohn Anderson University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 107, Issue 4, March 2021, Pages 987–988, https://doi.org/1…
Holger Hoock. Scars of Independence
Ken Burns has produced poignant television documentaries about the Civil War, World War II, and Vietnam, but not the War of Independence. Were he to attempt such a series, he would find his talents tested as never before. There are no photographs of weary soldiers or battlefields strewn with contorted corpses, no cemeteries with seemingly endless rows of gravestones marking the final resting places of the war dead. With few exceptions, eighteenth…
King Philip’s Herds
On a late spring day in 1669, the ambitious younger son of a prominent Rhode Island family received a letter from the town clerk of Portsmouth. Like many of his neighbors, the young man raised livestock and followed the common practice of placing his pigs on a nearby island where they could forage safe from predators. It was by no means unusual for seventeenth-century New Englanders to find themselves in trouble with local officials, particularly…
Susan Nance. Entertaining Elephants
Planting an Empire
In Planting an Empire, Jean B. Russo and J. Elliott Russo have produced an elegant and admirably concise overview of the history of the Chesapeake Bay region from the onset of English settlement to the end of the colonial period. The prologue, aptly entitled “Leah and Rachel,” sets the stage for the narrative that follows. Like those biblical sisters, the colonies of Virginia and Maryland shared many common features and yet also had their differe…
Building the Bay Colony
Thomas Minor's World
For over thirty years (1653-1685), Thomas Minor kept a diary recording his activities as a farmer in Stonington, Connecticut. This article uses Minor's diary, the only extant document of its kind for the seventeenth century, to reconstruct key features of the colonial New England agrarian experience. Arguing that work played as significant a role as religion in shaping early New Englanders' lives, the article examines not only how farming contrib…
Thomas Minor’s World
For over thirty years (1653-1685), Thomas Minor kept a diary recording his activities as a farmer in Stonington, Connecticut. This article uses Minor’s diary, the only extant document of its kind for the seventeenth century, to reconstruct key features of the colonial New England agrarian experience. Arguing that work played as significant a role as religion in shaping early New Englanders’ lives, the article examines not only how farming contrib…
Chickwallop and the Strange Beast
Indians’ ideas about animals — rooted in spiritual conceptions that recognized no sharp distinction between the natural and supernatural worlds — shaped native peoples’ responses to colonial livestock. This chapter discusses the place of animals in Native American societies in New England and the Chesapeake region, focusing on religious beliefs, hunting practices, and ideas about animals as property. It also discusses how colonists misunderstood …
A Prophecy Fulfilled
This chapter examines how towards the end of the 17th century, efforts on the part of Indians and colonists to resolve problems caused by livestock gave way to conflict. It argues that the colonists' growing populations and burgeoning herds placed great pressure on Native Americans and led to appropriations of Indian land. At the same time, Indians frustrated by the colonists' inability to control their animals sought revenge by killing livestock…
The Company of Cattle
This chapter examines why colonists assumed that English livestock and animal husbandry practices would easily transfer to the New World. They also presumed that by raising livestock on lands that Indians seemingly did not use, the English could justify their legal claim to the territory. Despite early difficulties, livestock populations eventually flourished.
Epilogue
The dawn of the eighteenth century brought little change to the lopsided relationship between colonists and Indians in New England and the Chesapeake. Year by year, gradually expanding English settlements threatened to engulf remaining Indian outposts. In only a few instances did Indians, principally in New England, manage to use livestock husbandry as a strategy to protect their territorial claims. Ironically, their success depended on maintaini…
Prologue
One of the oddest historical markers in all of New England can be found in the town of Duxbury, Massachusetts. A simple granite slab, it stands about five feet high and is perhaps two and a half feet wide. It was erected in 1940, shortly after Duxbury citizens observed the tercentenary of their town's founding. Yet the monument does not commemorate Duxbury's beginnings. Nor does it celebrate the achievements of a local notable, note the location …
Forgiving Trespasses
This chapter argues that trespassing livestock were a major cause of friction between Indians and English colonists. Even so, Native Americans and colonists found ways to cooperate with one another to resolve problems that animals caused. As a result of their efforts, the middle decades of the 17th century were characterized as much by cooperation as confrontation.
The Deer with the Red Collar
This chapter explores English ideas about animals and explains how they differed from Indian views. For the most part, colonists subscribed to a view of animals that asserted human dominion and denied non-human creatures any spiritual identity. That dominion could take the form of asserting property rights to living creatures. Colonists demonstrated this not only in their ownership of livestock, but also in their assumptions that New World creatu…
The Wild Gangs of the Chesapeake
This chapter argues that labor shortages and the availability of land encouraged Chesapeake colonists to abandon English practices and adopt free-range livestock husbandry. Many animals, especially swine, strayed from plantations and feral populations resulted. These developments loosened the colonists' hold on their livestock, complicated claims to animal property, and compromised domestic animals' usefulness as symbols of English civility.
A World of Pastures and Pounds
This chapter explores livestock husbandry in New England, where colonists relied on their domestic animals for local use and sale, especially to the West Indies. Once again, colonists altered English husbandry practices by adopting free-range husbandry, bringing their animals home only during the winter months. The chapter argues that despite local regulations regarding supervision of livestock, the animals were not always fully under human contr…
Creatures of Empire
When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England and the Chesapeake region, livestock played a vitally important role in the settling of the New World. Livestock, Anderson writes, were a central factor in the cultural clash between colonists and…
Subject Matter
Many American historians have assumed that racial definitions based on biological difference. emerged only in the late eighteenth century, and primarily to explain distinctions between blacks and whites. Joyce E. Chaplin' s new book requires us to think again. In it, she argues that such notions of racial difference emerged more than a century earlier to distinguish white colonists from Indians. As if that were not a sufficiently impressive contr…
Animals into the Wilderness
Virginia DeJohn Anderson, Animals into the Wilderness: The Development of Livestock Husbandry in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 59, No. 2 (Apr., 2002), pp. 377-408
Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World
John Eliot's Mission to the Indians before King Philip's War
Journal Article John Eliot's Mission to the Indians before King Philip's War. By Richard W. Cogley. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. xiv, 331 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-47537-2.) Get access Virginia DeJohn Anderson Virginia DeJohn Anderson University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pages 639–640, https://…
The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649
Journal Article The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630–1649. Ed. by Richard S. Dunn, James Savage, and Laetitia Yeandle. Cambridge: Belknap, 1996. lviii, 799 pp. $100.00 and The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630–1649: Abridged Edition. Ed. by Richard S. Dunn and Laetitia Yeandle. Cambridge: Belknap, 1996. xxii, 354 pp. Cloth, $39.95 Get access Virginia DeJohn Anderson Virginia DeJohn Anderson University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado Search for other wor…
The Great Migration Begins
Creatures of Empire
When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England and the Chesapeake region, livestock played a vitally important role in the settling of the New World. Livestock, Anderson writes, were a central factor in the cultural clash between colonists and…
Animals into the Wilderness
Virginia DeJohn Anderson, Animals into the Wilderness: The Development of Livestock Husbandry in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 59, No. 2 (Apr., 2002), pp. 377-408
King Philip's Herds
The Puritans
The Puritans: A Transatlantic History The Puritans: A Transatlantic History. By David D Hall. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. vi, 517 pp. Cloth, $35.00. Paper, $24.95.) Virginia DeJohn Anderson Virginia DeJohn Anderson University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 107, Issue 4, March 2021, Pages 987–988, https://doi.org/1…
Migrants and Motives
N oman, perhaps, would seem to have been an unlikelier candidate for transatlantic migration than John Bent. He had never shown any particular interest in moving; indeed, in 1638, at the age of forty-one, Bent still lived in Weyhill, Hampshire, where both he and his father before him had been born. Having prospered in the village of his birth, John Bent held enough land to distinguish himself as one of Weyhill's wealthiest inhabitants. One might …
Set Fair for Roanoke
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Dorset Pilgrims
Journal Article Dorset Pilgrims: The Story of West Country Pilgrims Who Went to New England in the 17th Century. By Frank Thistlethwaite. (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1989. x + 294 pp. £19.95.) Get access Virginia DeJohn Anderson Virginia DeJohn Anderson University of Colorado, Boulder Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 992–993, https://doi.o…
New England's Generation
Through analyses of the process of migration and settlement and of the symbolic meaning that participants attached to their experiences, this book tells the story of New England's origins as one of dynamism and change. Focusing on the lives of nearly seven-hundred emigrants, the narrative examines such topics as the settlers' motives for leaving England, their experience of the voyage, their patterns of settlement in the New World, and their sear…
The Origins of New England Culture
Possessing Albany, 1630-1710
The Importance of Being Ethnic
New England's Generation
New England's Generation
King Philip's Herds
Providence Island, 1630-1641
Journal Article Providence Island, 1630–1641: The Other Puritan Colony. By Karen Ordahl Kupperman. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xiv, 393 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-521-35205-3.) Get access Virginia DeJohn Anderson Virginia DeJohn Anderson University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Pages 1671–1672, https://do…
The Saving Remnant
The Great Migration Begins
The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649
Journal Article The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630–1649. Ed. by Richard S. Dunn, James Savage, and Laetitia Yeandle. Cambridge: Belknap, 1996. lviii, 799 pp. $100.00 and The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630–1649: Abridged Edition. Ed. by Richard S. Dunn and Laetitia Yeandle. Cambridge: Belknap, 1996. xxii, 354 pp. Cloth, $39.95 Get access Virginia DeJohn Anderson Virginia DeJohn Anderson University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado Search for other wor…
John Eliot's Mission to the Indians before King Philip's War
Journal Article John Eliot's Mission to the Indians before King Philip's War. By Richard W. Cogley. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. xiv, 331 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-47537-2.) Get access Virginia DeJohn Anderson Virginia DeJohn Anderson University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pages 639–640, https://…
Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World
Subject Matter
Many American historians have assumed that racial definitions based on biological difference. emerged only in the late eighteenth century, and primarily to explain distinctions between blacks and whites. Joyce E. Chaplin' s new book requires us to think again. In it, she argues that such notions of racial difference emerged more than a century earlier to distinguish white colonists from Indians. As if that were not a sufficiently impressive contr…
Animals into the Wilderness
Virginia DeJohn Anderson, Animals into the Wilderness: The Development of Livestock Husbandry in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 59, No. 2 (Apr., 2002), pp. 377-408
Chickwallop and the Strange Beast
Indians’ ideas about animals — rooted in spiritual conceptions that recognized no sharp distinction between the natural and supernatural worlds — shaped native peoples’ responses to colonial livestock. This chapter discusses the place of animals in Native American societies in New England and the Chesapeake region, focusing on religious beliefs, hunting practices, and ideas about animals as property. It also discusses how colonists misunderstood …
A Prophecy Fulfilled
This chapter examines how towards the end of the 17th century, efforts on the part of Indians and colonists to resolve problems caused by livestock gave way to conflict. It argues that the colonists' growing populations and burgeoning herds placed great pressure on Native Americans and led to appropriations of Indian land. At the same time, Indians frustrated by the colonists' inability to control their animals sought revenge by killing livestock…
The Company of Cattle
This chapter examines why colonists assumed that English livestock and animal husbandry practices would easily transfer to the New World. They also presumed that by raising livestock on lands that Indians seemingly did not use, the English could justify their legal claim to the territory. Despite early difficulties, livestock populations eventually flourished.
Epilogue
The dawn of the eighteenth century brought little change to the lopsided relationship between colonists and Indians in New England and the Chesapeake. Year by year, gradually expanding English settlements threatened to engulf remaining Indian outposts. In only a few instances did Indians, principally in New England, manage to use livestock husbandry as a strategy to protect their territorial claims. Ironically, their success depended on maintaini…
Prologue
One of the oddest historical markers in all of New England can be found in the town of Duxbury, Massachusetts. A simple granite slab, it stands about five feet high and is perhaps two and a half feet wide. It was erected in 1940, shortly after Duxbury citizens observed the tercentenary of their town's founding. Yet the monument does not commemorate Duxbury's beginnings. Nor does it celebrate the achievements of a local notable, note the location …
Forgiving Trespasses
This chapter argues that trespassing livestock were a major cause of friction between Indians and English colonists. Even so, Native Americans and colonists found ways to cooperate with one another to resolve problems that animals caused. As a result of their efforts, the middle decades of the 17th century were characterized as much by cooperation as confrontation.
The Deer with the Red Collar
This chapter explores English ideas about animals and explains how they differed from Indian views. For the most part, colonists subscribed to a view of animals that asserted human dominion and denied non-human creatures any spiritual identity. That dominion could take the form of asserting property rights to living creatures. Colonists demonstrated this not only in their ownership of livestock, but also in their assumptions that New World creatu…
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