A Reforming People

Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England

David D. Hall (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2012 | New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-7311-3 (ISBN)

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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.

David D. Hall is Bartlett Research Professor of New England Church History at Harvard Divinity School. He is author or editor of numerous books on American religious and cultural history, including Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment.

Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 235 mm
Gewicht	435 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
ISBN-10	0-8078-7311-X / 080787311X
ISBN-13	978-0-8078-7311-3 / 9780807873113
Zustand	Neuware