| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 276 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-268) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue : the struggle for the company -- The creation of the New England Way : cultural authority and the Puritan thinking class -- John Cotton, Roger Williams, and the problem of charisma -- John Cotton and the dialectic of Antinomian dissent -- Antinomianism defeated -- Ordering the one-party regime -- Establishing orthodoxy-- From the Cambridge Platform to the half-way covenant -- The restoration and the politics of declension -- Increase Mather and the decline of cutural domination. |
| Summary |
This interpretation of the political and intellectual history of Puritan Massachusetts, envisions the Bay colony as a 17th-century one-party state, where congregations served as ideological "cells" and authority was restricted to an educated elite of ministers and magistrates. From there the author offers a broadened conception of the interstices of political, social, and intellectual authority in Puritan Massachusetts and beyond, arguing that ideologies, as well as ideological politics, are produced by self-conscious, and often class-conscious, thinkers. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Puritans -- Massachusetts -- Intellectual life.
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Puritans. |
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Massachusetts. |
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Intellectual life. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1775 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Staloff, Darren, 1961- Making of an American thinking class. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998 0195113527 (DLC) 96053600 (OCoLC)36159415 |
| ISBN |
1429415754 (electronic book) |
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9781429415750 (electronic book) |
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1280529431 |
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9781280529436 |
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0195113527 (Cloth) |
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9780195113525 |
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