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  1. A reforming people
    Puritanism and the transformation of public life in New England
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  Knopf, New York, NY [u.a.]

    This work is an account of the aspirations and accomplishments of the people who founded the New England colonies, comparing the reforms they enacted with those attempted in England during the period of the English Revolution. The author, a historian... mehr

    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    2011 A 10428
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    Franckesche Stiftungen, Studienzentrum August Hermann Francke, Archiv und Bibliothek
    GLbc 063
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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt / Zentrale
    G III Ei 216
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    Universität Konstanz, Kommunikations-, Informations-, Medienzentrum (KIM)
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    Universitätsbibliothek Osnabrück
    6132-108 7
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    Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
    64.254
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    This work is an account of the aspirations and accomplishments of the people who founded the New England colonies, comparing the reforms they enacted with those attempted in England during the period of the English Revolution. The author, a historian looks afresh at how the colonists set up churches, civil governments, and methods for distributing land. Bringing with them a deep fear of arbitrary, unlimited authority grounded in either church or state, these settlers based their churches on the participation of laypeople and insisted on consent as a premise of all civil governance. Encouraging broad participation and relying on the vigorous use of petitioning, they also transformed civil and criminal law and the workings of courts. The outcome was a civil society far less authoritarian and hierarchical than was customary in their age, indeed, a society so advanced that a few dared to describe it as "democratical." They were well ahead of their time in doing so. As Puritans, the colonists also hoped to exemplify a social ethics of equity, peace, and the common good. In a case study of a single town, the author follows a minister as he encourages the townspeople to live up to these high standards in their politics. This is a book that challenges us to discard long standing stereotypes of the Puritans as temperamentally authoritarian and their leadership as despotic. The author demonstrates exactly the opposite. Here, we watch the colonists as they insist on aligning institutions and social practice with equity and liberty. This re-evaluation of the earliest moments of New England's history, reveals the colonists to be the most effective and daring reformers of their day

     

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    Quelle: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9780679441175
    RVK Klassifikation: NN 4040
    Schlagworte: Puritans; Local government; Religion and politics
    Umfang: XVII, 255 S.
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    "Arbitrary" or "democratical"? : the making of colony governments -- Land, taxes, and participation : the making of town governments -- Godly rule: empowering the saints -- An equitable society: ethics, the law, and authority -- "Already in heaven"? : church and community in Cambridge, Massachusetts.