The Pilgrims and the First Thanksgiving

The first Thanksgiving wasnt celebrated with turkey (there werent any in Massachusetts) and didnt take place in 1621. Indeed the settlers, who probably didnt think of themselves as Pilgrims and were most certainly not revolutionaries against their king, were lucky not to be wiped out during their first winter. They probably would have been had the local Indian population not been affected even worse by disease and starvation. In this fascinating history of Americas favorite creation myth, peppered with delightful and unexpected insights, Godfrey Hodgson throws new light on the radicalism of the so-called Pilgrims, the financing of their trip, the state of the Indian tribes that they encountered when they landed and the reasons why Plymouth probably didnt have a rock.

ISBN 1586483730   Pages 240 ISBN13 9781586483739 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher The Perseus Books Group   Weight (grammes) 472 Imprint PublicAffairs,U.S.   Published in New York Format Hardback   Height (mm) 236 Publication date 12 Sep 2006   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress 2006049373   Spine width (mm) 21 DEWEY 973   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

		Prologue : Thanksgiving
Ch. 1		The Reformation		1
Ch. 2		Scrooby		21
Ch. 3		The waters of exile		37
Ch. 4		Voyage and landfall		59
Ch. 5		A place of habitation		77
Ch. 6		First encounters		93
Ch. 7		The loss of trust		119
Ch. 8		The colony		131
Ch. 9		Fasts and Thanksgiving		153
Ch. 10		A republic gives thanks		167
		Epilogue : the invention of a tradition		183

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