The Huguenots in America: A Refugee People in New World Society

Publication Date: 
1983
Author(s): 
Jon Butler
ISBN Number: 
9780670000000
Publisher Site/Purchasing Link: 
Harvard University Press
Author (Faculty Member): 
Jon Butler

In this first modern history of the Huguenots’ New World experience, Jon Butler traces the Huguenot diaspora across late seventeenth-century Europe, explores the causes and character of their American emigration, and reveals the Huguenots’ secular and religious assimilation in three remarkably different societies—Boston, New York, and South Carolina.