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Autore |
Staloff Darren <1961-> |
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Titolo |
The making of an American thinking class [[electronic resource] ] : intellectuals and intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts / / Darren Staloff |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-52943-1 |
0-19-535441-9 |
1-4294-1575-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (293 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Puritans - Massachusetts - Intellectual life |
Elite (Social sciences) - Massachusetts - History - 17th century |
Electronic books. |
Massachusetts Intellectual life 17th century |
Massachusetts Politics and government To 1775 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-268) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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