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Smith William R. |
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Benjamin Coleman's epistolary world, 1688-1755 : networking in the dissenting Atlantic / / William R. Smith |
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Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] |
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©2022 |
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1 online resource (294 pages) |
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Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Networking in the British Atlantic and Colman's Epistolarium -- Outline of Chapters -- References -- Chapter 2: Benjamin Colman Travels to England, 1695-1699 -- Boston and the Post-Revolution Settlement, 1690-1695 -- English Dissent and the Collapse of the "Happy Union," 1690-95 -- Embarking for London in the "Heat of King William's War" -- Colman Enters the Social World of English Dissent -- The Urban Renaissance in England's Non-Metropolitan Districts -- Colman Returns to Boston -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Nonconformist Histories and the Rise of a Dissenting Narrative Identity -- Colman's Epistolary Network and Its Extension into Scotland -- Memorializing Protestant Dissent from the Imperial Edges -- Daniel Neal's History of New England -- "For the Glory of God, and the Cause of Religion and Liberty": Wodrow's History -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Empire of Books: Spreading Protestant Libraries in the British Atlantic World -- Anglican Imperial Architects and the Creation of the Transatlantic Library Movement -- Benjamin Colman's Network of Dissenting Imperialists -- Missionary Societies, John Sergeant, and the Realities of Empire -- "You Shall Be as a Wall of Fire About Us": SSPCK Missions in New England, 1730-1737 -- "The Necessaries of Life Are Dear in This Remote Part of the Country": Sergeant and the Stockbridge Mission -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: |
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The Dissenting 'Ties of Political Friendship,' British Union, and the Narragansett Property Conflict, 1720-1752 -- "Liberty and Union to All Succeeding Generations": The Act of Union (1707) in America -- "England is a Far Way Off": MacSparran's Controversial Early Ministry and the Beginnings of the Land Dispute, 1718-1732. |
"A Threatening Signal Set Up to Alarm": The Mobilization of Dissenting and Anglican Transatlantic Networks, 1733-1738 -- "This Tedious Twenty Years Suit": Localization, Fracture, and Defeat, 1739-1752 -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: The Great Awakening as an Epistolary Event -- "A Faithful Narrative," Rumors, and Colman's World of Transatlantic Letters -- "The Wonder of the Age": George Whitefield, Colman, and the Dissenting Interest -- "Next to the Pleasure of Receiving a Letter from You, Is That of Writing to You": Tracking Whitefield and Exchanging Revival News -- "Mr. Whitefield's Friends Have Been too Free with My Letters": Division, Disorder, and Disintegration -- War for Empire and the Defense of British Protestantism -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Samuel Davies Travels to England, 1753-1755 -- Samuel Davies and the Detachment of the Dissenting Interest -- References -- Index. |
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