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The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596–1728 Paperback - 1999

by Middlekauff, Robert

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University of California Press, 1999-06-29. Paperback. Good. 9x6x1. N.b. Some pencil annotation and underlining. Previous owners decorative stamp to inside front cover.
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  • Title The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596–1728
  • Author Middlekauff, Robert
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 458
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A
  • Date 1999-06-29
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 600586
  • ISBN 9780520219304 / 0520219309
  • Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 6.32 x 1.14 in (22.96 x 16.05 x 2.90 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 16th Century
    • Chronological Period: 17th Century
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Cultural Region: New England
  • Library of Congress subjects Puritans - Massachusetts, Mather, Cotton
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98050840
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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From the publisher

In this classic work of American religious history, Robert Middlekauff traces the evolution of Puritan thought and theology in America from its origins in New England through the early eighteenth century. He focuses on three generations of intellectual ministers-Richard, Increase, and Cotton Mather-in order to challenge the traditional telling of the secularization of Puritanism, a story of faith transformed by reason, science, and business. Delving into the Mathers' private papers and unpublished writings as well as their sermons and published works, Middlekauff describes a Puritan theory of religious experience that is more creative, complex, and uncompromising than traditional accounts have allowed. At the same time, he portrays changing ideas and patterns of behavior that reveal much about the first hundred years of American life.

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The question "who am I?" is often in the mouths of men in the twentieth century.

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"A revisionist work on the grand scale, one designed to humanize the divines who towered over New England for so long. . . .Middlekauff succeeds in seeing the Mathers by the lights of their own day." --Critic

"A volume of considerable importance and great clarity for the study of Puritan thought." --Saturday Review

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About the author

Robert Middlekauff is Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History at the University of California, Berkeley, and was Harmsworth Professor at Oxford University in 1996-97. His books include Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies (California, 1996) and The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (1982).

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