The Making Of An American Thinking Class : Intellectuals And Intelligentsia In Puritan Massachusetts

Staloff , Darren

ISBN 10: 0195113527 / ISBN 13: 9780195113525

Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Making Of An American Thinking Class : Intellectuals And Intelligentsia In Puritan Massachusetts
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195113527
• ISBN 13: 9780195113525
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • American History
  • Colonial America

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Darren Staloff is Assistant Professor of History at City College of New York.