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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2009
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Troubling the pages of historians : African American intellectuals and historical writing in the early republic, 1817-1837
- To present a just view of our origin : creating an African American historical discourse, 1837-1850
- The destiny of the colored people : African American history between compromise and jubilee, 1850-1863
- The historical mind of emancipation : writing African American history at the dawn of freedom, 1863-1882
- Advancement in numbers, knowledge, and power : African American history in post-reconstruction America, 1883-1915
- To smite the rock of knowledge : the Black academy and the professionalization of history.