The Making of an American Thinking Class
The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts by Darren Staloff
English | 1 Nov. 1997 | ISBN: 0195113527 | 296 Pages | PDF | 20 MB
English | 1 Nov. 1997 | ISBN: 0195113527 | 296 Pages | PDF | 20 MB
A radical new interpretation of the political and intellectual history of Puritan Massachusetts, The Making of an American Thinking Class envisions the Bay colony as a seventeenth century one-party state, where congregations served as ideological `cells' and authority was restricted to an educated elite of ministers and magistrates.