Reforming people : Puritanism and the transformation of public life in New England /

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Author / Creator:	Hall, David D.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (284 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Puritans -- New England -- History -- 17th century. Local government -- New England -- History -- 17th century. Religion and politics -- New England -- History -- 17th century. Local government. Politics and government Puritans. Religion and politics. New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. New England -- Politics and government -- To 1775. New England -- Church history -- 17th century. New England. Electronic books. Church history. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12868616

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ISBN:	9780807837115 0807837113 9781469601656 1469601656
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	In this revelatory account of the people who founded the New England colonies, historian David D. Hall compares the reforms they enacted with those attempted in England during the period of the English Revolution. Bringing with them a deep fear of arbitrary, unlimited authority, these settlers based their churches on the participation of laypeople and insisted on "consent" as a premise of all civil governance. Puritans also transformed civil and criminal law and the workings of courts with the intention of establishing equity. In this political and social history of the five New England colonies provides a reevaluation of the earliest moments of New England's history, revealing the colonists to be the most effective and daring reformers of their day.
Other form:	Print version: 9780807873113

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