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Hall, David D.
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Puritans -- New England -- History -- 17th century.
Local government -- New England -- History -- 17th century.
Religion and politics -- New England -- History -- 17th century.
New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
New England -- Politics and government -- To 1775.
New England -- Church history -- 17th century.
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A reforming people : Puritanism and the transformation of public life in
New
England
/ David D. Hall.
by
Hall, David D.
Subjects
Puritans
--
New
England
--
History
--
17th
century
.
Local government
--
New
England
--
History
--
17th
century
.
Religion and politics
--
New
England
--
History
--
17th
century
.
New
England
--
History
--
Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
New
England
--
Politics and government
--
To 1775.
New
England
--
Church
history
--
17th
century
.
Publisher Info:
New
York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xvii, 255 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9780679441175
0679441174
Contents:
Arbitrary or democraticall : the making of colony governments
--
Land, taxes, and participation : the making of town governments
--
Godly rule
--
Ethics, the law, and authority
--
Already in heaven? :
church
and community in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Summary:
This work is an account of the aspirations and accomplishments of the people who founded the
New
England
colonies, comparing the reforms they enacted with those attempted in
England
during the period of the English Revolution. The author, a historian looks afresh at how the colonists set up churches, civil governments, and methods for distributing land. Bringing with them a deep fear of arbitrary, unlimited authority grounded in either
church
or state, these settlers based their churches on the participation of laypeople and insisted on consent as a premise of all civil governance. Encouraging broad participation and relying on the vigorous use of petitioning, they also transformed civil and criminal law and the workings of courts. The outcome was a civil society far less authoritarian and hierarchical than was customary in their age, indeed, a society so advanced that a few dared to describe it as "democratical." They were well ahead of their time in doing so. As Puritans, the colonists also hoped to exemplify a social ethics of equity, peace, and the common good. In a case study of a single town, the author follows a minister as he encourages the townspeople to live up to these high standards in their politics. This is a book that challenges us to discard long standing stereotypes of the Puritans as temperamentally authoritarian and their leadership as despotic. The author demonstrates exactly the opposite. Here, we watch the colonists as they insist on aligning institutions and social practice with equity and liberty. This re-evaluation of the earliest moments of
New
England
's
history
, reveals the colonists to be the most effective and daring reformers of their day.
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