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A Reforming People Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hall, Stephen G. (Stephen Gilroy), 1968-
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009
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