num_pages: 300
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts
titlecomplete: The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts
genres: Nonfiction, Cultural, History, Religion, American History, The United States Of America, 17th Century, Politics
ratings_count: 14
publisher: Oxford University Press