A Reforming People : Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England / / Stephen G. Hall
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| Autore: |
Hall Stephen G (Stephen Gilroy), <1968->
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| Titolo: |
A Reforming People : Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England / / Stephen G. Hall
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2009 |
| Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2013 | |
| ©2009 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.896/073 |
| Soggetto topico: | African diaspora - History - 19th century |
| African American intellectuals - History - 19th century | |
| African American historians - History - 19th century | |
| African Americans - Intellectual life - 19th century | |
| Historiography - United States - History - 19th century | |
| African Americans - Historiography | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Intellectual life 19th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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.: | 9910480861603321 |
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