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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455378903321

Autore

Delbanco Andrew <1952->

Titolo

The Puritan ordeal [[electronic resource] /] / Andrew Delbanco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1989

ISBN

0-674-03417-1

Descrizione fisica

ix, 306 p

Disciplina

285/.9/0973

Soggetti

Puritans

Puritans - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Prophecies of Richard Hooker -- 2 Errand out of the Wilderness -- 3 City on a Hill -- 4 The Antinomian Dissent -- 5 The Founders Divide -- 6 Looking Homeward, Going Home -- 7 Fathers and Children -- 8 The Puritan Legacy -- Epilogue: Lincoln and Everett at Gettysburg -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

More than an ecclesiastical or political history, this book is a vivid description of the earliest American immigrant experience. It depicts the dramatic tale of the seventeenth-century newcomers to our shores as they were drawn and pushed to make their way in an unsettled and unsettling world.