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The New England mind : from colony to province / Perry Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Perry, 1905-1963.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Puritans--New England.
- Puritans.
- American literature--New England.
- American literature.
- New England theology.
- New England--Intellectual life.
- New England.
- New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 513 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, c1953.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The New England Mind: From Colony to Province is one of Perry Miller’s masterworks, exploring the intellectual history of the Puritans through a deep investigation of the thought of the Puritan divines. In this book, as well as its predecessor The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, Miller asserts a single intellectual history for America that could be traced to the Puritan belief system.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- FOREWORD
- CONTENTS
- PROLOGUE: RICHARD MATHER'S FAREWELL
- BOOK I Declenston
- CHAPTER I THE WRATH OF JEHOVAH
- CHAPTER II THE JEREMIAD
- CHAPTER III THE PROTESTANT ETHIC
- CHAPTER IV THE EXPANDING LIMITS OF NATURAL ABILITY
- CHAPTER V HYPOCRISY
- CHAPTER VI CHILDREN OF THE COVENANT
- CHAPTER VII HALF-WAY MEASURES
- CHAPTER VIII REVIVALISM
- CHAPTER IX INTOLERANCE
- CHAPTER X PROPAGANDA
- BOOK II Confusion
- CHAPTER XI PROFILE OF A PROVINCIAL MENTALITY
- CHAPTER XII SALVAGING THE COVENANT
- CHAPTER XIII THE JUDGMENT OF THE WITCHES
- CHAPTER XIV THE DILEMMA OF THE SACRAMENT
- CHAPTER XV CONTENTION
- CHAPTER XVI THE FAILURE OF CENTRALIZATION
- CHAPTER XVII THE UNRESOLVED DEBATE
- CHAPTER XVIII THE POISON OF WISE'S CURSED LIBEL
- BOOK III The Splintering of Society
- CHAPTER XIX A MEDIUM OF TRADE
- CHAPTER XX ANTIMINISTERIAL SENTIMENT
- CHAPTER XXI THE JUDGMENT OF THE SMALLPOX
- CHAPTER XXII A SECULAR STATE
- CHAPTER XXIII A TENDER PLANT
- BOOK IV The Socialization of Piety
- CHAPTER XXIV DO-GOOD
- CHAPTER XXV REASON
- CHAPTER XXVI THE EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY
- CHAPTER XXVII THE DEATH OF AN IDEA
- CHAPTER XXVIII POLITY AS A FORM OF PATRIOTISM
- EPILOGUE VALE ATQUE AVE
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
- INDEX
- Notes:
- "Sequel to The New ENgland mind: the seventeenth century."
- Includes bibliographical notes.
- ISBN:
- 9780674041042
- 0674041046
- OCLC:
- 923109740
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