1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785792303321

Autore

Hall David D

Titolo

A reforming people : Puritanism and the transformation of public life in New England / / with a new foreword by the author, David D. Hall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-4696-0165-6

0-8078-3711-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Disciplina

974.02

974/.02

Soggetti

Puritans - New England - History - 17th century

Local government - New England - History - 17th century

Religion and politics - New England - History - 17th century

New England History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

New England Politics and government To 1775

New England Church history 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published in 2011 by Alfred A. Knopf.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Troubling the pages of historians : African American intellectuals and historical writing in the early republic, 1817-1837 -- To present a just view of our origin : creating an African American historical discourse, 1837-1850 -- The destiny of the colored people : African American history between compromise and jubilee, 1850-1863 -- The historical mind of emancipation : writing African American history at the dawn of freedom, 1863-1882 -- Advancement in numbers, knowledge, and power : African American history in post-reconstruction America, 1883-1915 -- To smite the rock of knowledge : the Black academy and the professionalization of history.

Sommario/riassunto

In this revelatory account of the people who founded the New England colonies, historian David D. Hall compares the reforms they enacted with those attempted in England during the period of the English Revolution. Bringing with them a deep fear of arbitrary, unlimited authority, these settlers based their churches on the participation of



laypeople and insisted on ""consent"" as a premise of all civil governance. Puritans also transformed civil and criminal law and the workings of courts with the intention of establishing equity. In this political and social history of the five New England colo