03022nam 2200637Ia 450 991078478840332120230207224333.00-19-771445-51-280-52943-10-19-535441-91-4294-1575-4(CKB)1000000000400424(EBL)273034(OCoLC)466428928(SSID)ssj0000195946(PQKBManifestationID)11171987(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000195946(PQKBWorkID)10141418(PQKB)11617821(Au-PeEL)EBL273034(CaPaEBR)ebr10279039(CaONFJC)MIL52943(MiAaPQ)EBC273034(EXLCZ)99100000000040042419961216d1998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe making of an American thinking class[electronic resource] intellectuals and intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts /Darren StaloffNew York Oxford University Press19981 online resource (293 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-514982-3 0-19-511352-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-268) and index.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 TermsAppendix 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; WThis 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 ideological politics, are produced by self-conscious and class-conscious thinkers.PuritansMassachusettsIntellectual lifeElite (Social sciences)MassachusettsHistory17th centuryMassachusettsIntellectual life17th centuryMassachusettsPolitics and governmentTo 1775PuritansIntellectual life.Elite (Social sciences)History305.55209744974.402Staloff Darren1961-626181MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784788403321The making of an American thinking class3854294UNINA