A reforming people : Puritanism and the transformation of public life in New England / / with a new foreword by the author, David D. Hall
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| Autore: |
Hall David D
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| Titolo: |
A reforming people : Puritanism and the transformation of public life in New England / / with a new foreword by the author, David D. Hall
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , [2012] |
| ©2012 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 974.02 |
| 974/.02 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Puritans - New England - History - 17th century |
| Local government - New England - History - 17th century | |
| Religion and politics - New England - History - 17th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | New England History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 |
| New England Politics and government To 1775 | |
| New England Church history 17th century | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A reforming people |
| ISBN: | 1-4696-0165-6 |
| 0-8078-3711-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785792303321 |
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