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Saints & revolutionaries : essays on early American history

Author: David D Hall; John M Murrin; Thad W Tate; Edmund S Morgan
Publisher: New York : Norton, ©1984.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David D Hall; John M Murrin; Thad W Tate; Edmund S Morgan
ISBN: 0393017516 9780393017519
OCLC Number: 9082137
Notes: Essays by students of Edmund S. Morgan, to whom the book is dedicated.
Description: xv, 398 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: 1. Religion & mentality. English Puritanism and the progress of New England institutions, 1630-1660 / Stephen Foster. Specters of subversion, Societies of Friends: dissent and the devil in provincial Essex County, Massachusetts / Christine Leigh Heyrman. The mental world of Samuel Sewall / David D. Hall --
2. Law & politics. "Due execution of the generall rules of righteousnesse": criminal procedure in New Haven Town and Colony, 1638-1658 / Gail Sussman Marcus. The Rhode Island Civil Code of 1647 / G.B. Warden. Magistrates, sinners, and a precarious liberty: trial by jury in seventeenth-century New England / John M. Murrin. Elites and electorates: some plain truths for historians of colonial America / Joy B. and Robert D. Gilsdorf --
3. Culture, society, & the Revolution. The culture of agriculture: the symbolic world of the tidewater planter, 1760-1790 / T.H. Breen. The problem of allegiance in revolutionary Poughkeepsie / Jonathan Clark. Why men fought in the American Revolution / Robert Middlekauff. The origins of "The paranoid style in American politics": public jealousy from the age of Walpole to the age of Jackson / James S. Hutson --
Doctoral students of Edmund S. Morgan.
Other Titles: Saints and revolutionaries.
Responsibility: edited by David D. Hall, John M. Murrin, and Thad W. Tate.

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