{"product_id":"from-a-far-country-camisards-and-huguenots-in-the-atlantic-world-paperback-1","title":"From a Far Country: Camisards and Huguenots in the Atlantic World - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCatharine Randall\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFrom a Far Country\u003c\/i\u003e Catharine Randall examines Huguenots and their less-known cousins the Camisards, offering a fresh perspective on the important role these French Protestants played in settling the New World. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Camisard religion was marked by more ecstatic expression than that of the Huguenots, not unlike differences between Pentecostals and Protestants. Both groups were persecuted and emigrated in large numbers, becoming participants in the broad circulation of ideas that characterized the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Randall vividly portrays this French Protestant diaspora through the lives of three figures: Gabriel Bernon, who led a Huguenot exodus to Massachusetts and moved among the commercial elite; Ezéchiel Carré, a Camisard who influenced Cotton Mather's theology; and Elie Neau, a Camisard-influenced writer and escaped galley slave who established North America's first school for blacks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike other French Protestants, these men were adaptable in their religious views, a quality Randall points out as quintessentially American. In anthropological terms they acted as code shifters who manipulated multiple cultures. While this malleability ensured that French Protestant culture would not survive in externally recognizable terms in the Americas, Randall shows that the culture's impact was nonetheless considerable.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatharine Randall is a professor of French at Fordham University. She is the author of numerous books including \"Earthly Treasures: Material Culture and Metaphysics in the Heptameron and Evangelical Narrative\" and \"Building Codes: The Aesthetics of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 186\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.43 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48445086269661,"sku":"9780820338200","price":60.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/uoSlZ419EQ9780820338200_9517bd69-0d68-4706-832f-8469f65d9528.webp?v=1787760224","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/from-a-far-country-camisards-and-huguenots-in-the-atlantic-world-paperback-1","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}