The making of an American thinking class : intellectuals and intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts / / Darren Staloff

• Autore: Staloff Darren <1961->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.55209744; 974.402
• Soggetto topico: Puritans - Massachusetts - Intellectual life; Elite (Social sciences) - Massachusetts - History - 17th century
• Soggetto geografico: Massachusetts Intellectual life 17th century; Massachusetts Politics and government To 1775
• Note generali: Includes index.; Previously issued in print: 1997.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-268) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Terms ; Appendix 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; W
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a reinterpretation of the political and intellectual history of Puritan Massachusetts, envisioning the Bay colony as a 17th-century one-party state.
• Titolo autorizzato: The making of an American thinking class
• ISBN: 0-19-771445-5; 1-280-52943-1; 0-19-535441-9; 1-4294-1575-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810139003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.