The Puritan ordeal / / Andrew Delbanco
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| Autore: |
Delbanco Andrew <1952->
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| Titolo: |
The Puritan ordeal / / Andrew Delbanco
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1989 |
| Edizione: | 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (ix, 306 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 285/.9/0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Puritans |
| Puritans - United States | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliography and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Prophecies of Richard Hooker -- 2 Errand out of the Wilderness -- 3 City on a Hill -- 4 The Antinomian Dissent -- 5 The Founders Divide -- 6 Looking Homeward, Going Home -- 7 Fathers and Children -- 8 The Puritan Legacy -- Epilogue: Lincoln and Everett at Gettysburg -- Notes -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | More than an ecclesiastical or political history, this book is a vivid description of the earliest American immigrant experience. It depicts the dramatic tale of the seventeenth-century newcomers to our shores as they were drawn and pushed to make their way in an unsettled and unsettling world. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Puritan ordeal |
| ISBN: | 9780674034174 |
| 0674034171 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910960428103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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