Transgressing the Bounds : Subversive Enterprises among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692

Name: Transgressing the Bounds : Subversive Enterprises among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692
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ISBN: 9780195302448

ISBN-10: 0195302443

ISBN-13: 9780195302448

Edition: N/A

Authors: Louise A. Breen

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This study offers a new interpretation of the Puritan "Antinomian" controversy and a skillful analysis of its wider and long term social and cultural significance. Breen argues that controversy both reflected and fostered larger questions of identity that would persist in Puritan New Englandduring the 17th century. Some issues discussed here include the existence of individualism in a society that valued conformity and the response of members of an inward-looking, localistic culture to those among them of a more "cosmopolitan" nature. Central to Breen's study is the Ancient andHonorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, an elite social club that attracted a heterogeneous yet prominent…

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Publisher: NetLibrary, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/1/2001
Binding: E-Book
Language: English

Acknowledgments	p. v
Transgressing the Bounds	p. 2
Introduction	p. 3
A Contest of Cultures in Puritan Massachusetts	p. 17
Honor, Heresy, and the Massachusetts Ordeal of John Underhill	p. 57
Cosmopolitan Puritans in a Provincial Colony	p. 97
Daniel Gookin, King Philip's War, and the Dangers of Intercultural Mediatorship	p. 145
Epilogue and Conclusion	p. 197
Notes	p. 221
Index	p. 283
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