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1 online resource (ix, 513 pages) |
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Prologue: Richard Mather's Farewell -- I. Declension -- The Wrath of Jehovah -- The Jeremiad -- The Protestant Ethic -- The Expanding Limits of Natural Ability -- Hypocrisy -- Children of the Covenant -- Half-way Measures -- Revivalism -- Intolerance -- Propaganda -- II. Confusion -- Profile of a Provincial Mentality -- Salvaging the Covenant -- The Judgment of the Witches -- The Dilemma of the Sacraments -- Contention -- The Failure of Centralization -- The Unresolved Debate -- The Poison of Wise's Cursed Libel -- III. The Splintering of Society -- A Medium of Trade -- Antiministerial Sentiment -- The Judgment of the Smallpox -- A Secular State -- A Tender Plant -- IV. The Socialization of Piety -- Do-Good -- Reason -- The Experimental Philosophy -- The Death of an Idea -- Polity as a Form of Patriotism -- Epilogue: Vale Atque Ave |
| 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 |
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"Sequel to The New England mind: the seventeenth century"--Foreword |
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Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge [Mass.] : Harvard University Press, 1953 |
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"This book has been digitally reprinted. The content remains identical to that of previous printings." -- Title page verso |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
American literature -- Puritan authors -- History and criticism
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American literature -- New England -- History and criticism
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Puritans -- New England
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New England theology.
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- General.
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American literature
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American literature -- Puritan authors
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Intellectual life
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New England theology
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Puritans
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New England -- Intellectual life.
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New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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New England
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780674041042 |
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0674041046 |
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0674613015 |
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9780674613010 |
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