The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts

by Darren M. Staloff

Book Overview

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. From there Staloff offers a broadened conception of the interstices of political, social, and intellectual authority...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195113527
• ISBN13: 9780195113525
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 9.0"