03539oam 22006734a 450 991048086160332120201208004156.01-4696-0165-60-8078-3711-3(CKB)2670000000238494(EBL)989837(OCoLC)809768308(SSID)ssj0000741756(PQKBManifestationID)12315710(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000741756(PQKBWorkID)10742542(PQKB)11173678(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245615(MiAaPQ)EBC989837(MdBmJHUP)muse23408(EXLCZ)99267000000023849420090625d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA Reforming PeoplePuritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England /Stephen G. HallChapel Hill :University of North Carolina Press,2009Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE,2013©20091 online resource (284 p.)Originally published in 2011 by Alfred A. Knopf.0-8078-7311-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 coloAfrican diasporaHistory19th centuryAfrican American intellectualsHistory19th centuryAfrican American historiansHistory19th centuryAfrican AmericansIntellectual life19th centuryHistoriographyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAfrican AmericansHistoriographyUnited StatesIntellectual life19th centuryElectronic books.African diasporaHistoryAfrican American intellectualsHistoryAfrican American historiansHistoryAfrican AmericansIntellectual lifeHistoriographyHistoryAfrican AmericansHistoriography.305.896/073Hall Stephen G(Stephen Gilroy),1968-1028966MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910480861603321A Reforming People2445156UNINA