Overview
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.
- | Author: Darren Staloff
- | Publisher: Oxford University Press
- | Publication Date: Dec 18, 1997
- | Number of Pages: 296 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0195113527
- | ISBN-13: 9780195113525
