Saints & revolutionaries
Subtitle: essays on early American history
By: edited by David D. Hall, John M. Murrin, and Thad W. Tate.
Contributors: Hall, David D.; Murrin, John M.; Tate, Thad W.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
Subjects: Morgan, Edmund Sears; New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; United States -- Civilization -- To 1783
Other titles: Saints and revolutionaries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Essays by students of Edmund S. Morgan, to whom the book is dedicated.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: Doctoral students of Edmund S. Morgan.