Winthrop's Boston : A Portrait of a Puritan Town, 1630-1649 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rutman, Darrett Bruce
Corporate Author: Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill, Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press [1965]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Winthrop, John, > 1588-1649.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Massachusetts > Boston.
Boston (Mass.) > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Periode coloniale)
Boston (Mass.) > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • List of maps and illustrations
  • 1. "A citty upon a hill"
  • 2. Shawmut
  • 3. The emergence of town government
  • 4. "Places for husbandry"
  • 5. Toward a New Jerusalem
  • 6. Diversity and division
  • 7. "Boston in New England"
  • 8. The well ordering of the town
  • 9. The city by the water
  • 10. Epilogue
  • Appendices
  • 1. The intention to settle a single community
  • 2. Were the emigrants of 1630 "non-separating Congregationalists"?
  • Note on sources and methods.

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