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Unmoored : the search for sincerity in colonial America /
"New England's Puritans were devoted to self-scrutiny. Consumed by the pursuit of pure hearts, they latched on to sincerity as both an ideal and a social process. It fueled examinations of inner lives, governed behavior, and provided a standard against which both could be judged. But as An...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Williamsburg, Virginia : Chapel Hill :
The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; The University of North Carolina Press,
[2023]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "New England's Puritans were devoted to self-scrutiny. Consumed by the pursuit of pure hearts, they latched on to sincerity as both an ideal and a social process. It fueled examinations of inner lives, governed behavior, and provided a standard against which both could be judged. But as Ana Schwartz demonstrates, if sincerity promised much, it often delivered more: it bred shame and resentment among the English settlers and, all too often, extraordinary violence toward their Algonquian neighbors and the captured Africans who lived among them. Populating her 'city on a hill' with the stock characters of Puritan studies as well as obscure actors, Schwartz breathes new life into our understanding of colonial New England"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 276 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469671796 1469671794 9781469671789 1469671786 |