Preface The Seal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Introduction Map of the Praying Towns The Eliot Tracts Letters
MICHAEL P. CLARK is Associate Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Planning and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.
?Michael P. Clark has collected the Eliot Tracts in a single
edition for the first time. This edition, which beautifully
reproduces the title pages of the original tracts, is a
long-awaited and much-needed contribution to early American
studies.?-The New England Quarterly
?The Eliot Tracts reprinted in this volume fully describe Eliot's
missionary endeavor. They are thus the New England counterpart of
The Jesuit Relations of the French colonies and the Spanish mission
activities described in narratives of New Spain. Missionaries'
records and narratives, used cautiously, can be good sources for
ethnographic information about indigenous peoples. Researchers mine
them with the knowledge that missionaries' observations have been
filtered through preconceptions and culturally shaped perceptions
and judgments. These documents may be even more useful for
understanding the period and the encounter between Native and
European peoples. Thus, this first gathering together in one volume
of the serially and separately published Tracts will be useful to
historians and anthropologists studying Native-European relations
in the northern colonies....Colonial history and Native America
collections will want this book. Recommended. Upper-division
undergraduates and above.?-Choice
"Michael P. Clark has collected the Eliot Tracts in a single
edition for the first time. This edition, which beautifully
reproduces the title pages of the original tracts, is a
long-awaited and much-needed contribution to early American
studies."-The New England Quarterly
"The Eliot Tracts reprinted in this volume fully describe Eliot's
missionary endeavor. They are thus the New England counterpart of
The Jesuit Relations of the French colonies and the Spanish mission
activities described in narratives of New Spain. Missionaries'
records and narratives, used cautiously, can be good sources for
ethnographic information about indigenous peoples. Researchers mine
them with the knowledge that missionaries' observations have been
filtered through preconceptions and culturally shaped perceptions
and judgments. These documents may be even more useful for
understanding the period and the encounter between Native and
European peoples. Thus, this first gathering together in one volume
of the serially and separately published Tracts will be useful to
historians and anthropologists studying Native-European relations
in the northern colonies....Colonial history and Native America
collections will want this book. Recommended. Upper-division
undergraduates and above."-Choice
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