The Puritan Ordeal / / Andrew Delbanco.
More than an ecclesiastical or political history, this book is a vivid description of the earliest American immigrant experience. It depicts the dramatic tale of the seventeenth-century newcomers to our shores as they were drawn and pushed to make their way in an unsettled and unsettling world.Revie...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Prophecies of Richard Hooker
- 2 Errand out of the Wilderness
- 3 City on a Hill
- 4 The Antinomian Dissent
- 5 The Founders Divide
- 6 Looking Homeward, Going Home
- 7 Fathers and Children
- 8 The Puritan Legacy
- Epilogue: Lincoln and Everett at Gettysburg
- Notes
- Index