Format:
Online-Ressource (xv, 276 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0195113527
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9780195113525
Content:
This is a reinterpretation of the political and intellectual history of Puritan Massachusetts, envisioning the Bay colony as a 17th-century one-party state. The author argues that ideologies, as well as ideological politics, are produced by self-conscious and class-conscious thinkers
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-268) and index
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Contents; Introduction; Prologue: The Struggle for the Company; 1 The Creation of the New England Way: Cultural Authority and the Puritan Thinking Class; 2 John Cotton, Roger Williams, and the Problem of Charisma; 3 John Cotton and the Dialectic of Antinomian Dissent; 4 Antinomianism Defeated; 5 Ordering the One-Party Regime; 6 Establishing Orthodoxy; 7 From the Cambridge Platform to the Half-Way Covenant; 8 The Restoration and the Politics of Declension; 9 Increase Mather and the Decline of Cultural Domination; Appendix A: Key Terms
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Appendix B: Toward a Postrevisionist Interpretation of Puritanism: Religion, Society, and PoliticsNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195113525
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Making of an American Thinking Class : Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts
Language:
English
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