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Huguenot Refugees in Colonial New York: Becoming American in the Hudson Valley
Paula Wheeler Carlo
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Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 414.
Drawing comparisons with the broader Huguenot diaspora, this book reassesses the prevailing view that Huguenots in North America quickly conformed to Anglicanism and abandoned the French language and other distinctive characteristics in order to assimilate into Anglo-American culture. Although the standard interpretation may still be true for Huguenots in heterogeneous urban communities, it should be modified for Huguenots in ethnically and religiously homogeneous rural settlements like New Paltz and New Rochelle, where the process was more akin to a gradual acculturation.
Drawing comparisons with the broader Huguenot diaspora, this book reassesses the prevailing view that Huguenots in North America quickly conformed to Anglicanism and abandoned the French language and other distinctive characteristics in order to assimilate into Anglo-American culture. Although the standard interpretation may still be true for Huguenots in heterogeneous urban communities, it should be modified for Huguenots in ethnically and religiously homogeneous rural settlements like New Paltz and New Rochelle, where the process was more akin to a gradual acculturation.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845190606
SKU
V9781845190606
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99-31
About Paula Wheeler Carlo
Paula Wheeler Carlo is Assistant Professor of History at Nassau Community College, State University of New York. Her doctoral dissertation received the 2001 book award from the National Huguenot Society. In 2003 she was given a Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award from Nassau Community College and in 2004 she received the prestigious State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence ... Read more
Reviews for Huguenot Refugees in Colonial New York: Becoming American in the Hudson Valley
Paula Wheeler Carlo has produced a concise, richly detailed, and thoroughly researched account of rural New York Huguenots that gives us a more nuanced understanding of this groups role in colonial America Essential reading for anyone studying the Huguenot experience in colonial America, and an important reminder that much of rural colonial America consisted of ethnic and religious communities that ... Read more