Background
Pestana, Carla Gardina was born on October 24, 1958 in Burbank, California, United States. Daughter of Raymond E. and Mary Ann (Volturo) Gardina.
( Between 1640 and 1660, England, Scotland, and Ireland ...)
Between 1640 and 1660, England, Scotland, and Ireland faced civil war, invasion, religious radicalism, parliamentary rule, and the restoration of the monarchy. Carla Gardina Pestana offers a sweeping history that systematically connects these cataclysmic events and the development of the infant plantations from Newfoundland to Surinam. By 1660, the English Atlantic emerged as religiously polarized, economically interconnected, socially exploitative, and ideologically anxious about its liberties. War increased both the proportion of unfree laborers and ethnic diversity in the settlements. Neglected by London, the colonies quickly developed trade networks, especially from seafaring New England, and entered the slave trade. Barbadian planters in particular moved decisively toward slavery as their premier labor system, leading the way toward its adoption elsewhere. When by the 1650s the governing authorities tried to impose their vision of an integrated empire, the colonists claimed the rights of "freeborn English men," making a bid for liberties that had enormous implications for the rise in both involuntary servitude and slavery. Changes at home politicized religion in the Atlantic world and introduced witchcraft prosecutions. Pestana presents a compelling case for rethinking our assumptions about empire and colonialism and offers an invaluable look at the creation of the English Atlantic world.
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(This book presents the history of two religious sects suc...)
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.
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(Between 1640 and 1660, England, Scotland, and Ireland fac...)
Between 1640 and 1660, England, Scotland, and Ireland faced civil war, invasion, religious radicalism, parliamentary rule, and the restoration of the monarchy. This work offers the history that connects these cataclysmic events and the development of the infant plantations from Newfoundland to Surinam.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FDVP614/?tag=2022091-20
Pestana, Carla Gardina was born on October 24, 1958 in Burbank, California, United States. Daughter of Raymond E. and Mary Ann (Volturo) Gardina.
Bachelor, Loyola Marymount University.A., 1980. Master of Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1983. Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1987.
Research associate John Carter Brown Library., Providence, 1985—1986. Assistant professor Ohio State University, Columbus, 1987—1993, associate professor, 1993—2003. W.E. Smith professor Miami University, Oxford, since 2003.
Member, steering project National History Project, 2001—2003.
(This book presents the history of two religious sects suc...)
( Between 1640 and 1660, England, Scotland, and Ireland ...)
(Between 1640 and 1660, England, Scotland, and Ireland fac...)
Member of Organization American Historians (chairman Binkley Stevenson committee 1995), American History Association, Omohundro Institute Early American (associate. Chairman fellowship section 1997), Colonial Society Massachusetts (life).
Married Donald Edward Pestana, June 26, 1981. Children: Cody Thomas, Anderson John.