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In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants - entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike - faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away.In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home.
About the Author
Malcolm Gaskill is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He is an expert in witch-beliefs and witchcraft trials of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, about which he has written extensively. His other areas of interest include crime and the law, mentalities and emotions, and spiritualism. His most recent book is Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans (2014) , a study of Anglo-American mentality and culture in the seventeenth century. A new book, The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World, is set on the New England frontier, and will be published by Penguin, Allen Lane in November 2021. Gaskill is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books. He lives in Cambridge with his partner and their three children.
