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

Type

Book

Authors

Darren Staloff

ISBN 10

0195113527

ISBN 13

9780195113525

Tags

Colonial Period, State & Local, Social Sciences, Politics & Government, United States, Political Science

Description

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. - from Amzon

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