The Crisis of the Standing Order: Clerical Intellectuals and Cultural Authority in Massachusetts, 1780-1833 - Hardcover

Field, Peter S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558491430 ISBN 13: 9781558491434

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998

Synopsis

Chronicles the demise of one Massachusetts intellectual elite, the Congregational Standing Order, and the rise of another, the Boston Brahmins. Finds behind the change the rise of a new group of wealthy urban merchants who funded Brahmin efforts to create the first secular high culture in the US, to the detriment of the orthodox ministry. Also traces the consequences of the change for the region and the country as a whole. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter S. Field is assistant professor of history at Tennessee Technological University.

Review:

"Significant, well-written, meticulous in its research, and witty, Field's book makes a major contribution to our understanding of religion in Massachusetts during the first third of the nineteenth century and to American intellectual history in general." - Mary Kupiec Cayton, Miami University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1558491430
• ISBN 13: 9781558491434
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280