The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts

by Darren M. Staloff

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A radical new interpretation of the political and intellectual history of Puritan Massachusetts, The Making of an American Thinking Class envisions the Bay colony as a seventeenth century one-party state, where congregations served as ideological 'cells' and authority was restricted to an educated elite of ministers and magistrates. From there Staloff offers a broadened conception of the interstices of political, social, and intellectual authority...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195113527

ISBN13:9780195113525

Release Date:December 1997

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:296 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.7" x 9.0"

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17th Century Colonial Period History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences State & Local

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