THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN THINKING CLASS by Darren Staloff ( 9780195113525 )

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THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN THINKING CLASS
INTELLECTUALS AND INTELLIGENTSIA IN PURITAN MASSACHUSETTS

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Darren Staloff

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC

Pub. date:

1 October, 1997

Pages:

292

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A radical new interpretation of the political and intellectual history of Puritan Massachusetts, The Making of an American Thinking Class envisions the Bay colony as a seventeenth century one-party state, where congregations served as ideological `cells' and authority was restricted to an educated elite of ministers and magistrates. From there Staloff offers a broadened conception of the interstices of political, social, and intellectual authority in PuritanMassachusetts and beyond, arguing that ideologies, as well as ideological politics, are produced by self-conscious, and often class-conscious, thinkers.

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A radical new interpretation of the political and intellectual history of Puritan Massachusetts, The Making of an American Thinking Class envisions the Bay colony as a seventeenth century one-party state, where congregations served as ideological 'cells' and authority was restricted to an educated elite of ministers and magistrates. From there Staloff offers a broadened conception of the interstices of political, social, and intellectual authority in Puritan Massachusetts and beyond, arguing that ideologies, as well as ideological politics, are produced by self-conscious, and often class-conscious, thinkers.

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