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A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England

Name: A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England
ISBN: 9780807873113

David D. Hall

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In this revelatory account of the people who founded the New England colonies, historian David D. Hall compares the reforms they enacted with those attempted in England during the period of the English Revolution. Bringing with them a deep fear of arbitrary, unlimited authority, these settlers based their churches on the participation of laypeople and insisted on "consent" as a premise of all civil governance. Puritans also transformed civil and criminal law and the workings of courts with the intention of establishing equity. In this political and social history of the five New England colonies, Hall provides a masterful re-evaluation of the earliest moments of New England's history, revealing the colonists to be the most effective and daring reformers of their day.

Категорії:

History - American Studies

Рік:

2012

Видавництво:

The University of North Carolina Press

Мова:

english

Сторінки:

288

ISBN 10:

080787311X