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The New England Mind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 524

The New England Mind

In The New England Mind: From Colony to Province, as well as its predecessor The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, Perry Miller asserts a single intellectual history for America that could be traced to the Puritan belief system.

The Puritans [by] Perry Miller and Thomas H. Johnson
  • Language: en

The Puritans [by] Perry Miller and Thomas H. Johnson

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1963
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Transcendentalists
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 548

The Transcendentalists

The philosophy explained in terms of selections from the writings of the chief adherents.

Errand Into the Wilderness
  • Language: en

Errand Into the Wilderness

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1984
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The American Puritans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 405

The American Puritans

Perry Miller was born in Chicago on February 25, 1905. He was educated at the University of Chicago where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1931. Since then Mr. Miller taught at Harvard University and in 1946 became a Professor of American Literature there. He died in 1963. He was the author of Orthodoxy in Massachusetts (1933); The New England Mind (1939); Jonathan Edwards (1949); Roger Williams (1953); The Raven and the Whale (1956); and Errand into the Wilderness (1956). This anthology is organized as follows: Foreword Chapter One. History 1. William Bradford, 1590-1657 Of Plymouth Plantation 2. Thomas Shepard, 1605-1649 A Defense of the Answer 3. Edward Johnson, 1598-1672 Wonder-Working Pr...

The New England Mind
  • Language: en

The New England Mind

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1971
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Religion & Freedom of Thought
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 72

Religion & Freedom of Thought

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American Technological Sublime
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

American Technological Sublime

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996-02-28
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

American Technological Sublime continues the exploration of the social construction of technology that David Nye began in his award-winning book Electrifying America. Here Nye examines the continuing appeal of the "technological sublime" (a term coined by Perry Miller) as a key to the nation's history, using as examples the natural sites, architectural forms, and technological achievements that ordinary people have valued intensely. Technology has long played a central role in the formation of Americans' sense of selfhood. From the first canal systems through the moon landing, Americans have, for better or worse, derived unity from the common feeling of awe inspired by large-scale applicatio...

The Puritans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

The Puritans

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City on a Hill
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 390

City on a Hill

A fresh, original history of America's national narratives, told through the loss, recovery, and rise of one influential Puritan sermon from 1630 to the present day In this illuminating book, Abram C. Van Engen shows how the phrase "city on a hill," from a 1630 sermon by Massachusetts Bay governor John Winthrop, shaped the story of American exceptionalism in the twentieth century. By tracing the history of Winthrop's speech, its changing status through time, and its use in modern politics, Van Engen asks us to reevaluate our national narratives. He tells the story of curators, librarians, collectors, archivists, antiquarians, and other often anonymous figures who emphasized the role of the Pilgrims and Puritans in American history, paving the way for the saving and sanctifying of a single sermon and its eventual transformation into an American tale. This sermon's rags-to-riches rise reveals the way national stories take shape and shows us how they continue to influence competing visions of the country--the many different meanings of America that emerge from its literary past.