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The Gentle Puritan A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795 / by Edmund S. Morgan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morgan, Edmund S. (Edmund Sears), 1916-2013.
- Series:
- Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stiles, Ezra, 1727-1795.
- Yale University--Presidents--Biography.
- Yale University.
- College presidents--Connecticut--Biography.
- College presidents.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (513 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Now available again, this important biography of the early New England intellectual leader was greeted as a "landmark in the history of the American mind" by Clifford K. Shipton when it appeared in 1962. Stiles lived at a critical time--the transition from the Reformation to the Enlightenment, which came suddenly in New England--and because of his position, his influence was great."
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; 1. The Meaning of New England; 2. The Great Awakening; 3. Yale; 4. Infidelity; 5. Abigail; 6. Academic Dignity; 7. The Calling; 8. Newport; 9. A Library of Unwritten Books; 10. Dreams of Glory; 11. Puritanism Enlightened; 12. The Ministry; 13. Christian Freedom; 14. Anglicophobia; 15. The Edge of Civil War; 16. Christian Union and Disunion; 17. The Making of an American; 18. Uprooted; 19. Parson or President; 20. New Haven Again; 21. Wartime President; 22. Peacetime Battles; 23. The Collegiate Life; 24. The Academic Life; 25. The Great Reconciliation
- 26. Private Life of a President27. A Yale Jacobin; Appendix; A Note on the Stiles Papers; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908770-5-5
- 979-88-908770-6-2
- 0-8078-3972-8
- 1-4696-1141-4
- 0-393-30126-5
- OCLC:
- 967550850
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb00014 hdl
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