From Puritan to Yankee Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765

Name: From Puritan to Yankee Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765
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ISBN: 9780674325517

ISBN-10: 0674325516

ISBN-13: 9780674325517

Edition: 1967

Authors: Richard L. Bushman

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The years from 1690 to 1765 in America have usually been considered a waiting period before the Revolution. Mr. Bushman, in his penetrating study of colonial Connecticut, takes another view. He shows how, during these years, economic ambition and religious ferment profoundly altered the structure of Puritan society, enlarging the bounds of liberty and inspiring resistance to established authority. This is an investigation of the strains that accompanied the growth of liberty in an authoritarian society. Mr. Bushman traces the deterioration of Puritan social institutions and the consequences for human character. He does this by focusing on day-to-day life in Connecticut--on the farms, in…

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List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 1967
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/15/1980
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Richard Lyman Bushman is Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus at Columbia University.Reid L. Neilson is assistant professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University.Jed Woodworth is a Ph.D. candidate in American history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.




Society in 1690



Law and Authority



The Town and the Economy



Land, 1690-1740



Proprietors



Outlivers



New Plantations



The Politics of Land



Money, 1710-1750



New Traders



East versus West



Covetousness



Churches, 1690-1765



Clerical Authority



Dissent



Awakening



The Church and Experimental Religion



Church and State



Politics, 1740-1765



New Lights in Politics



A New Social Order


Appendixes


Bibliographical


Note


List of Works


Cited


Index


Illustrations


Map of Connecticut in 1765


Map of hereditary


Mohegan lands and Wabbaquasset lands