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Saints and revolutionaries : essays on early American history / edited by David D. Hall, John M. Murrin, and Thad W. Tate.

Contributor(s): Hall, David D | Murrin, John M | Tate, Thad W
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Norton, [1984]Copyright date: ©1984Edition: First editionDescription: xv, 398 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0393017516Subject(s): New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | United States -- Civilization -- To 1783 | Morgan, Edmund S. (Edmund Sears), 1916-2013DDC classification: 974/.02 LOC classification: F7 | .S24 1984Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1. Religion & mentality. English Puritanism and the progress of New England institutions, 1630-1660 / Stephen Foster. Specters of subversion, Societies of Friends: dissent and the devil in provincial Essex County, Massachusetts / Christine Leigh Heyrman. The mental world of Samuel Sewall / David D. Hall -- 2. Law & politics. "Due execution of the generall rules of righteousnesse": criminal procedure in New Haven Town and Colony, 1638-1658 / Gail Sussman Marcus. The Rhode Island Civil Code of 1647 / G.B. Warden. Magistrates, sinners, and a precarious liberty: trial by jury in seventeenth-century New England / John M. Murrin. Elites and electorates: some plain truths for historians of colonial America / Joy B. and Robert D. Gilsdorf -- 3. Culture, society, & the Revolution. The culture of agriculture: the symbolic world of the tidewater planter, 1760-1790 / T.H. Breen. The problem of allegiance in revolutionary Poughkeepsie / Jonathan Clark. Why men fought in the American Revolution / Robert Middlekauff. The origins of "The paranoid style in American politics": public jealously from the age of Walpole to the age of Jackson / James S. Hutson -- Doctoral students of Edmund S. Morgan.

Essays by students of Edmund S. Morgan, to whom the book is dedicated.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Religion & mentality. English Puritanism and the progress of New England institutions, 1630-1660 / Stephen Foster. Specters of subversion, Societies of Friends: dissent and the devil in provincial Essex County, Massachusetts / Christine Leigh Heyrman. The mental world of Samuel Sewall / David D. Hall -- 2. Law & politics. "Due execution of the generall rules of righteousnesse": criminal procedure in New Haven Town and Colony, 1638-1658 / Gail Sussman Marcus. The Rhode Island Civil Code of 1647 / G.B. Warden. Magistrates, sinners, and a precarious liberty: trial by jury in seventeenth-century New England / John M. Murrin. Elites and electorates: some plain truths for historians of colonial America / Joy B. and Robert D. Gilsdorf -- 3. Culture, society, & the Revolution. The culture of agriculture: the symbolic world of the tidewater planter, 1760-1790 / T.H. Breen. The problem of allegiance in revolutionary Poughkeepsie / Jonathan Clark. Why men fought in the American Revolution / Robert Middlekauff. The origins of "The paranoid style in American politics": public jealously from the age of Walpole to the age of Jackson / James S. Hutson -- Doctoral students of Edmund S. Morgan.

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