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The New England mind : from colony to province / Perry Miller.

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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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