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The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts

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The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts - Staloff, Darren
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A radical new interpretation of the political and intellectual history of Puritan Massachusetts, The Making of an American Thinking Class envisions the Bay colony as a seventeenth century one-party state, where congregations served as ideological 'cells' and authority was restricted to an educated elite of ministers and magistrates. From there Staloff offers a broadened conception of the interstices of political, social, and intellectual authority in Puritan Massachusetts and beyond, arguing that ideologies, as well as ...

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The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts 2001, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780195149821

Revised edition

Trade paperback

The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts 1997, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195113525

Hardcover