The making of an American thinking class: intellectuals and intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts
Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Staloff, Darren (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1998
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:FAW01
FAW02
Volltext
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-268) and index
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
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 276 p.)
ISBN:1280529431
1429415754
9780195113525
9781280529436
9781429415750

Es ist kein Print-Exemplar vorhanden.

Fernleihe Bestellen Achtung: Nicht im THWS-Bestand! Volltext öffnen