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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961309003321

Autore

Staloff Darren <1961->

Titolo

The making of an American thinking class : intellectuals and intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts / / Darren Staloff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998

ISBN

0-19-771445-5

1-280-52943-1

0-19-535441-9

1-4294-1575-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

305.55209744

974.402

Soggetti

Puritans - Massachusetts - Intellectual life

Elite (Social sciences) - Massachusetts - History - 17th century

Massachusetts Intellectual life 17th century

Massachusetts Politics and government To 1775

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-268) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

This is a reinterpretation of the political and intellectual history of Puritan Massachusetts, envisioning the Bay colony as a 17th-century



one-party state.