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A Little Commonwealth By John Demos
Book Review By Jonathan Klakamp


I’ve chosen to review “A Little Commonwealth� by John Demos. In this book, it’s obvious that Author, John Demos, is intent on developing his analysis with materials Indigenous to the Plymouth colonies. In the forward to “A Little Commonwealth� Demos states, “It was my wish to write a type of case study in early American life – a Study which, through sustained work on materials from one community, produces questions, methods of approach, and even some substantive conclusions that will ultimately have a much wider application�. When Demos first started his work he looked into the courts records from the Plymouth Colony, which he found to be negative and bias. Mostly pointing out what the colony (as a whole) disapproved of rather than what daily life was actually like for the individual families that lived there. Demos thought information he found was too formal regarding family interaction and......

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