The Puritan ordeal / Andrew Delbanco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delbanco, Andrew, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Puritans.

Puritans--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 306 pages)

Edition:

1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

More than an ecclesiastical or political history, this book is a vivid description of the earliest American immigrant experience. It depicts the dramatic tale of the seventeenth-century newcomers to our shores as they were drawn and pushed to make their way in an unsettled and unsettling world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction

1 The Prophecies of Richard Hooker

2 Errand out of the Wilderness

3 City on a Hill

4 The Antinomian Dissent

5 The Founders Divide

6 Looking Homeward, Going Home

7 Fathers and Children

8 The Puritan Legacy

Epilogue: Lincoln and Everett at Gettysburg

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

9780674034174

0674034171

OCLC:

923110055