This book is based on a chronology beginning with the Act of Supremacy in 1534 and ends with Jonathan Edwards's death in 1758. Bremer's interpretive synthesis of the causes and contexts of the Puritan movement integrates religious, political, sociological, economic, and cultural changes wrought by the movement in both Old and New England. [From publisher's description]

[This book offers an] interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. [In the book, the author] constructs [an] interdisciplinary analysis of how the land and the people influenced one another, and how that complex web of relationships shaped New England's communities.-Back cover.

"Gravestones are colonial America's earliest sculpture and they provide a unique physical link to the European people who settled here. Carved in Stone book is an elegant collection of over 80 fine duotone photographs, each a personal meditation on an old stone carving, and on New England's past, where these stones tell stories about death at sea, epidemics such as small pox, the loss of children, and a grim view of the afterlife. The essay is a graceful...