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Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts

Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts

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  • Carla Gardina Pestana
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback
  • 9780521525046
  • 9.05 X 6.08 X 0.51 inches
  • 0.69 pounds
  • History > United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)
  • English
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This book presents the history of two religious sects successfully established in seventeenth-century Massachusetts, where it was illegal to participate in any faith other than the legally established congregationalism of the Puritan founders of the colony. Taking a comparative approach, the author examines the Quaker meeting in Salem and the Baptist church in Boston over more than a century. The work opens with the dramatic events surrounding dissenters' efforts to gain a foothold in the colony, and goes on to locate sectarians within their families and communities, and to examine their beliefs and the changing nature of the organizations they founded and their interactions with the larger community and its leaders. The work deals with the religiosity of lay colonists, finding that men and women responded to these sects differently. It also analyzes sociological theories of sectarian evolution, the politics of dissent, and changes in beliefs and practices.
Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts

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Carla Gardina Pestana, Professor and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World, studies the 17th and 18th century Atlantic worlds, especially the English Atlantic; the Caribbean; and U.S. religious history.

Carla Gardina Pestana received her Ph.D. at UCLA in 1987 in early American history. Before joining UCLA’s faculty in 2012, she taught at The Ohio State University, Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand, and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Professor Pestana has published books on religion and empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her first book, Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts, considered illegal religious communities in New England’s less tolerant colony. Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World (2009), explored the religious transformation brought by English expansion into the Atlantic world. 

On the subject of empire, she authored The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661 (2004), a study of the effects of revolutionary upheaval in England, Ireland, and Scotland on England’s nascent empire. 

She is also the co-editor with Sharon V. Salinger of Inequality in Early America (1991), a volume of essays honoring their dissertation advisor, Gary B. Nash. 

Also with Salinger, she compiled and edited a multi-volume collection of primary texts on the early English engagement in the Caribbean, for British publishing house Pickering-Chatto, entitled The Early English Caribbean, 1570-1700. 

The Belknap imprint at Harvard University Press published Pestana’s The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire  

At the Huntington Library she delivered a public lecture on that project, in connection with her position as Robert C. Ritchie Distinguished Fellow. 

Listen to the talk here: Oliver Cromwell’s Consolation Prize? The English Conquest of Jamaica--http://www.huntington.org/audio/2016_0302_oliver_cromwells_consolation_prize.mp3

Here latest book, also with Belknap/Harvard, is The World of Plymouth Plantation (2020): https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238510.

Between 2016 and 2018, she blogged for the Huffington Post; follow this link to read posts: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/cgpestana-346

Her teaching interests range over similar fields to those explored in her publications. She contributes her expertise in early American history, the history of American religion, piracy, and the history of the early modern world. She has taught undergraduate courses on Atlantic history and early American history, on the history of American religion, as well as on such topics as Salem witchcraft, Plymouth Plantation, and pirates in the Caribbean. 

Professor Pestana teaches the introductory course for first year U.S. graduate students, History 246A (U.S. History and Historiography to 1800).  Her 14A course, History of the Atlantic World, was offered for the first time in 2019. She offers occasional Fiat Lux courses, on topics including THE GLOBAL CLIMATE CRISIS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, the novel WOLF HALL considered as an exercise in historical revision, THE ADVENTURES OF HENRY PITMAN (a seventeenth-century prisoner of war, indentured servant, runaway and physician), and the contrasting national origin stories associated with 1619 and 1620.

She is the immediate past President of FEEGI (Forum on Early-Modearn Empires  and Global Interactions); an OAH Distinguished Lecturer, 2016-2022; a member of the editorial board of the American Historical Review ; and a member of the Nominating Committee for the AHA, 2020-22.

 

Source: University of California Los Angeles - Social Sciences Division 

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