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Author : Jeremy Bangs
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004420557
Bangs overturns stereotypes with exciting new analyses of colonial and Native life in Plymouth Colony, of religious toleration, and of historical memory.
Author : David A. Weir
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0802813526
The idea of covenant was at the heart of early New England society. In this singular book David Weir explores the origins and development of covenant thought in America by analyzing the town and church documents written and signed by seventeenth-century New Englanders. Unmatched in the breadth of its scope, this study takes into account all of the surviving covenants in all of the New England colonies. Weir's comprehensive survey of seventeenth-century covenants leads to a more complex picture of early New England than what emerges from looking at only a few famous civil covenants like the Mayflower Compact. His work shows covenant theology being transformed into a covenantal vision for society but also reveals the stress and strains on church-state relationships that eventually led to more secularized colonial governments in eighteenth-century New England. He concludes that New England colonial society was much more "English" and much less "American" than has often been thought, and that the New England colonies substantially mirrored religious and social change in Old England.
Author : Cedric B. Cowing
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : England
ISBN : 0252064402
The great flight that brought colonists in the 1600s to what would become New England was a resettlement that had not only a geographical and spiritual impact, but an important historical impact as well. The influences of the settlers' English origins, and the fact that various religious groups inhabited specific areas of New England, strongly shaped American history through the 1800s and beyond. Cedric Cowing demonstrates that there were two Englands, one evangelistic and one rationalistic. In the northwest of the British Isles was a society that was pastoral, westering, otherworldly, and revivalist--in the southeast was another, more established and mercantile. These two strains set the stage and powered the action for the biggest religious event of the eighteenth century--the Great Awakening. The leaders of the New Light in the Great Awakening were the Saving Remnant, mostly ministers with liberal education who retained their evangelical and seeker religiosity. The clearly identifiable regional religious parallels between old England and New are still discernable today and give a new slant to heretofore unresolved historiographical issues. Cowing shows how regionalism influenced the nature of New England Puritanism and how the presence of a strong and persistent link between regional origins and religious behavior led to the inevitability of the Salem witch trials.
Author : Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0670037605
A history of the Pilgrim settlement of New England challenges popular misconceptions, discussing such topics as the diseases of European origin suffered by the Wampanoag tribe, the fragile working relationship between the Pilgrims and their Native American neighbors, and the devastating impact of the King Philip's War. By the author of Sea of Glory. 450,000 first printing.
Author : Perry Miller,Thomas H. Johnson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486161051
Critically acclaimed compilation includes writings by William Bradford, Increase Mather, William Hubbard, Anne Bradstreet, and other influential figures. "The best selection ever made of Puritan literature." — historian Samuel Eliot Morison.
Author : Mark A. Peterson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0804729123
Beginning with the first colonists and continuing down to the present, the dominant narrative of New England Puritanism has maintained that piety and prosperity were enemies, that the rise of commerce delivered a mortal blow to the fervor of the founders, and that later generations of Puritans fell away from their religious heritage as they moved out across the New England landscape. This book offers a new alternative to the prevailing narrative, which has been frequently criticized but heretofore never adequately replaced. The authors argument follows two main strands. First, he shows that commercial development, rather than being detrimental to religion, was necessary to sustain Puritan religious culture. It was costly to establish and maintain a vital Puritan church, for the needs were many, including educated ministers who commanded substantial salaries; public education so that the laity could be immersed in the Bible and devotional literature (substantial expenses in themselves); the building of meeting houses; and the furnishing of communion tables--all and more were required for the maintenance of Puritan piety. Second, the author analyzes how the Puritans gradually developed the evangelical impulse to broadcast the seeds of grace as widely as possible. The spread of Puritan churches throughout most of New England was fostered by the steady devotion of material resources to the maintenance of an intense and demanding religion, a devotion made possible by the belief that money sown to the spirit would reap divine rewards. In 1651, about 20,000 English colonists were settled in some 30 New England towns, each with a newly formed Puritan church. A century later, the population had grown to 350,000, and there were 500 meetinghouses for Puritan churches. This book tells the story of this remarkable century of growth and adaptation through intertwined histories of two Massachusetts churches, one in Boston and one in Westfield, a village on the remote western frontier, from their foundings in the 1660s to the religious revivals of the 1740s. In conclusion, the author argues that the Great Awakening was a product of the continuous cultivation of traditional religion, a cultural achievement built on New Englands economic development, rather than an indictment and rejection of its Puritan heritage.
Author : Douglas L. Winiarski
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469628271
This sweeping history of popular religion in eighteenth-century New England examines the experiences of ordinary people living through extraordinary times. Drawing on an unprecedented quantity of letters, diaries, and testimonies, Douglas Winiarski recovers the pervasive and vigorous lay piety of the early eighteenth century. George Whitefield's preaching tour of 1740 called into question the fundamental assumptions of this thriving religious culture. Incited by Whitefield and fascinated by miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit--visions, bodily fits, and sudden conversions--countless New Englanders broke ranks with family, neighbors, and ministers who dismissed their religious experiences as delusive enthusiasm. These new converts, the progenitors of today's evangelical movement, bitterly assaulted the Congregational establishment. The 1740s and 1750s were the dark night of the New England soul, as men and women groped toward a restructured religious order. Conflict transformed inclusive parishes into exclusive networks of combative spiritual seekers. Then as now, evangelicalism emboldened ordinary people to question traditional authorities. Their challenge shattered whole communities.
Author : M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441103949
When the Europeans first arrived in America, they had a number of preconceptions, prejudices, expectations and hopes about what life in the New World would be like. This book examines the different visions and representations of America conveyed in the writings of Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and the Pilgrim leader William Bradford, taking both writers within their respective literary and historical contexts. Anthologies of American literature have consistently ignored Spanish-language achievements on the grounds of a restrictive interpretation of American literature based on linguistic boundaries. Consequently, Spanish-language texts such as Cabeza de Vaca's or the account by the Hidalgo de Elvas, to name but two examples, have been marginalized in the narrative of American literary history. In seeking to redress this neglect, Galisteo contributes to scholarship which seeks to analyze Early America as a whole, including not only Anglo American perspectives but also the Spanish American aspect of the colonization process.
Author : Steven Frye
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107095373
This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.
Author : Harry Weese and Associates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Architecture
ISBN : PURD:32754079603266
Author : John H. Armstrong
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0890244170
This notable designer has contributed to Model Railroader magazine since the 1950s. This exciting book features easy-to-follow layout designs for sophisticated layouts. Ideal for intermediate and advanced model railroaders.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015033654552
American national trade bibliography.
Author : Richard Lee Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007318434
Publishes refereed scholarship in history and related disciplines from initial Old World-New World contacts to the early nineteenth century and beyond. Its articles, notes and documents, and reviews range from British North America and the United States to Europe, West Africa, the Caribbean, and the Spanish American borderlands. Forums and topical issues address topics of active interest in the field.
Author : U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Hydrography
ISBN : UOM:39015074171615
Author : Shebnah Rich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Historic sites
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010692952