“Fear of Popish Leagues”: Religious Identities and the Conduct of Frontier Diplomacy in Mid-17^th-Century Northeastern America

“Fear of Popish Leagues” weaves together various threads across the Atlantic from Scotland to Mexico and from Germany to the Caribbean to explore the makeshift diplomacy of Massachusetts Puritans and the Catholics from Acadia across confessional boundaries in the frontier environment of mid-Seventeenth Century America and in the context of civil wars in Europe.