Saints & revolutionaries : essays on early American history
1984
974.02 S131, 1984
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Title
Saints & revolutionaries : essays on early American history
Variant Title
Saints and revolutionaries
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York Norton c1984
Description
xv, 398 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
974.02 S131, 1984
System Control No.
(OCoLC)09082137
Note
Essays by students of Edmund S. Morgan, to whom the book is dedicated.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: 1. Religion & mentality. English Puritanism and the progress of New England institutions, 1630-1660 / Stephen Foster. Specters of subversion, Societies of Friends: dissent and the devil in provincial Essex County, Massachusetts / Christine Leigh Heyrman. The mental world of Samuel Sewall / David D. Hall -- 2. Law & politics. "Due execution of the generall rules of righteousnesse": criminal procedure in New Haven Town and Colony, 1638-1658 / Gail Sussman Marcus. The Rhode Island Civil Code of 1647 / G.B. Warden. Magistrates, sinners, and a precarious liberty: trial by jury in seventeenth-century New England / John M. Murrin. Elites and electorates: some plain truths for historians of colonial America / Joy B. and Robert D. Gilsdorf -- 3. Culture, society, & the Revolution. The culture of agriculture: the symbolic world of the tidewater planter, 1760-1790 / T.H. Breen. The problem of allegiance in revolutionary Poughkeepsie / Jonathan Clark. Why men fought in the American Revolution / Robert Middlekauff. The origins of "The paranoid style in American politics": public jealousy from the age of Walpole to the age of Jackson / James S. Hutson.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: 1. Religion & mentality. English Puritanism and the progress of New England institutions, 1630-1660 / Stephen Foster. Specters of subversion, Societies of Friends: dissent and the devil in provincial Essex County, Massachusetts / Christine Leigh Heyrman. The mental world of Samuel Sewall / David D. Hall -- 2. Law & politics. "Due execution of the generall rules of righteousnesse": criminal procedure in New Haven Town and Colony, 1638-1658 / Gail Sussman Marcus. The Rhode Island Civil Code of 1647 / G.B. Warden. Magistrates, sinners, and a precarious liberty: trial by jury in seventeenth-century New England / John M. Murrin. Elites and electorates: some plain truths for historians of colonial America / Joy B. and Robert D. Gilsdorf -- 3. Culture, society, & the Revolution. The culture of agriculture: the symbolic world of the tidewater planter, 1760-1790 / T.H. Breen. The problem of allegiance in revolutionary Poughkeepsie / Jonathan Clark. Why men fought in the American Revolution / Robert Middlekauff. The origins of "The paranoid style in American politics": public jealousy from the age of Walpole to the age of Jackson / James S. Hutson.
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