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

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Oxford University Press, 1998 - 276 pages
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 ideological politics, are produced by self-conscious, and often class-conscious, thinkers.
 

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I
5
4
41
Antinomianism Defeated
55
5
61
Ordering the OneParty Regime
73
7
97
Key Terms
189
Notes
207
Index
269
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Darren Staloff is Assistant Professor of History at City College of New York.

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