Emerson W Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 684559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emerson W Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emerson W |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER E W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emerson W. Baker, Professor of History at Salem State College, has written extensively on the early history of northern New England. His current book project, The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England, will be published in October 2007 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Storm of Witchcraft
Journal Article A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience Get access Emerson W. Baker. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xvi, 398 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 2, September 2015, Page 535, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav348 Published: 01 September 2015
The Names of the Rivers”
Analyzing a mysterious, early-seventeenth-century description of the New England coast from Maine to Martha's Vineyard, the essay provides information about Native American sachems, suggests insights into the means by which explorers exchanged information, and offers an interpretation of Martin Pring's landing
Amerindian Power in the Early Modern Northeast
N April 20o, 1700, the governor of New England and New York, the earl of Bellomont, informed the English Board of Trade that, if... there should be a generall defection of the Indians, the English in a moneth's time be forced on all the Continent of America take refuge in their Towns, where I am most certain they could not subsist two moneths, for the Indians not leave 'em any sort of cattle or corne. While this warning was based on concurrent ap…
Finding the Almouchiquois
A close reading of Native American land transactions aids in the identification of the inhabitants of southern Maine in the seventeenth century, a region that traditionally has been an ethnohistorical no-man's-land. Organized at the village level, Native peoples answered to no supreme sachem but had strong ties across the area through alliance and intermarriage. The residents of coastal Maine remained culturally and politically tied to their neig…
The Times of Their Lives
for over a quarter century James Deetz led the movement to integrate archaeology and material culture into the study of American history. The movement's manifesto was his seminal work, In Small Things Forgotten. Published in 1977 and based largely on his archaeological projects for the Plimoth Plantation museum, the book used archaeology to bring insight and excitement to early New England history. The approach Deetz introduced heavily influenced…
Twelve Thousand Years
Book Review| October 01 2002 Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine, BRUCE J. BOURQUE, Steven L. Cox and Ruth H. Whitehead. EMERSON W. BAKER EMERSON W. BAKER Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Connecticut History Review (2002) 41 (2): 211–213. https://doi.org/10.2307/44369586 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site C…
The New England Knight
The New England Knight
American Beginnings
American Beginnings
American Beginnings
American Beginnings
Farmers and Fishermen
Daniel Vickers examines the shifting labor strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string of frontier settlements to a mature society on the brink of industrialization. Lacking a means to purchase slaves or hire help, seventeenth-century settlers adapted the labor systems of Europe to cope with the shortages of capital and workers they encountered on the edge of the wilderness. As their world developed, changes in labor arrange…
A Scratch with a Bear's Paw
Seventeenth-century deeds from Maine serve as a case study for the ethnohistorical potential of research. These transactions provide insights into native land tenure and tribal boundaries, two aspects of Maine Indians rarely noted by seventeenth-century observers. Deeds also shed light on Anglo-Indian relations. Maine Indians were not cheated of their lands in a fraudulent deed game. Instead, land sales were predominantly legitimate transactions …
The Times of Their Lives
for over a quarter century James Deetz led the movement to integrate archaeology and material culture into the study of American history. The movement's manifesto was his seminal work, In Small Things Forgotten. Published in 1977 and based largely on his archaeological projects for the Plimoth Plantation museum, the book used archaeology to bring insight and excitement to early New England history. The approach Deetz introduced heavily influenced…
Farmers and Fishermen
Daniel Vickers examines the shifting labor strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string of frontier settlements to a mature society on the brink of industrialization. Lacking a means to purchase slaves or hire help, seventeenth-century settlers adapted the labor systems of Europe to cope with the shortages of capital and workers they encountered on the edge of the wilderness. As their world developed, changes in labor arrange…
A Storm of Witchcraft
Journal Article A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience Get access Emerson W. Baker. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xvi, 398 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 2, September 2015, Page 535, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav348 Published: 01 September 2015
Amerindian Power in the Early Modern Northeast
N April 20o, 1700, the governor of New England and New York, the earl of Bellomont, informed the English Board of Trade that, if... there should be a generall defection of the Indians, the English in a moneth's time be forced on all the Continent of America take refuge in their Towns, where I am most certain they could not subsist two moneths, for the Indians not leave 'em any sort of cattle or corne. While this warning was based on concurrent ap…
Twelve Thousand Years
Book Review| October 01 2002 Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine, BRUCE J. BOURQUE, Steven L. Cox and Ruth H. Whitehead. EMERSON W. BAKER EMERSON W. BAKER Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Connecticut History Review (2002) 41 (2): 211–213. https://doi.org/10.2307/44369586 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site C…
Finding the Almouchiquois
A close reading of Native American land transactions aids in the identification of the inhabitants of southern Maine in the seventeenth century, a region that traditionally has been an ethnohistorical no-man's-land. Organized at the village level, Native peoples answered to no supreme sachem but had strong ties across the area through alliance and intermarriage. The residents of coastal Maine remained culturally and politically tied to their neig…
A Scratch with a Bear's Paw
Seventeenth-century deeds from Maine serve as a case study for the ethnohistorical potential of research. These transactions provide insights into native land tenure and tribal boundaries, two aspects of Maine Indians rarely noted by seventeenth-century observers. Deeds also shed light on Anglo-Indian relations. Maine Indians were not cheated of their lands in a fraudulent deed game. Instead, land sales were predominantly legitimate transactions …
A Scratch with a Bear's Paw
Seventeenth-century deeds from Maine serve as a case study for the ethnohistorical potential of research. These transactions provide insights into native land tenure and tribal boundaries, two aspects of Maine Indians rarely noted by seventeenth-century observers. Deeds also shed light on Anglo-Indian relations. Maine Indians were not cheated of their lands in a fraudulent deed game. Instead, land sales were predominantly legitimate transactions …
American Beginnings
Farmers and Fishermen
Daniel Vickers examines the shifting labor strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string of frontier settlements to a mature society on the brink of industrialization. Lacking a means to purchase slaves or hire help, seventeenth-century settlers adapted the labor systems of Europe to cope with the shortages of capital and workers they encountered on the edge of the wilderness. As their world developed, changes in labor arrange…
American Beginnings
American Beginnings
American Beginnings
The New England Knight
The New England Knight
The Times of Their Lives
for over a quarter century James Deetz led the movement to integrate archaeology and material culture into the study of American history. The movement's manifesto was his seminal work, In Small Things Forgotten. Published in 1977 and based largely on his archaeological projects for the Plimoth Plantation museum, the book used archaeology to bring insight and excitement to early New England history. The approach Deetz introduced heavily influenced…
Twelve Thousand Years
Book Review| October 01 2002 Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine, BRUCE J. BOURQUE, Steven L. Cox and Ruth H. Whitehead. EMERSON W. BAKER EMERSON W. BAKER Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Connecticut History Review (2002) 41 (2): 211–213. https://doi.org/10.2307/44369586 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site C…
Amerindian Power in the Early Modern Northeast
N April 20o, 1700, the governor of New England and New York, the earl of Bellomont, informed the English Board of Trade that, if... there should be a generall defection of the Indians, the English in a moneth's time be forced on all the Continent of America take refuge in their Towns, where I am most certain they could not subsist two moneths, for the Indians not leave 'em any sort of cattle or corne. While this warning was based on concurrent ap…
Finding the Almouchiquois
A close reading of Native American land transactions aids in the identification of the inhabitants of southern Maine in the seventeenth century, a region that traditionally has been an ethnohistorical no-man's-land. Organized at the village level, Native peoples answered to no supreme sachem but had strong ties across the area through alliance and intermarriage. The residents of coastal Maine remained culturally and politically tied to their neig…
The Names of the Rivers”
Analyzing a mysterious, early-seventeenth-century description of the New England coast from Maine to Martha's Vineyard, the essay provides information about Native American sachems, suggests insights into the means by which explorers exchanged information, and offers an interpretation of Martin Pring's landing
A Storm of Witchcraft
Journal Article A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience Get access Emerson W. Baker. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xvi, 398 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 2, September 2015, Page 535, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav348 Published: 01 September 2015
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