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The New England Mind : From Colony to Province /

Miller, Perry

The New England Mind : From Colony to Province / Perry Miller. - 1 online resource (523 p.)

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

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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.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780674041042

10.4159/9780674041042 doi


HISTORY / United States / General.

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