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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Staloff, Darren, 1961- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Puritans--Massachusetts--Intellectual life.

Puritans.

Elite (Social sciences)--Massachusetts--History--17th century.

Elite (Social sciences).

Massachusetts--Intellectual life--17th century.

Massachusetts.

Massachusetts--Politics and government--To 1775.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a reinterpretation of the political and intellectual history of Puritan Massachusetts, envisioning the Bay colony as a 17th-century one-party state.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-268) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771445-5

1-280-52943-1

0-19-535441-9

1-4294-1575-4

OCLC:

466428928