The Making of an American Thinking Class

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

This pathbreaking study offers a radical new interpretation of the political, religious, and intellectual history of Puritan Massachusetts. More than simply a theologically inspired Biblical commonwealth, the church state of the Bay Colony was a seventeenth-century one-party state, where congregations served as ideological cells.
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