Books written by David D. Hall
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The Puritans: A Transatlantic History
John Coffey, “The Problem of Scottish Puritanism,” in Enforcing Reformation in Ireland and Scotland, 1550–1700, ed. Elizabethanne Boran and Crawford Gribben (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), 66–90 (noting the belated appearance of the term in ...
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Victorian America
The most influential studies — by David Rothman on the United States Senate and Robert Marcus on the presidential nominating apparatus of the G.O.P. - reveal both a high degree of professional partisanship ( which may or may not have ...
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The Puritans: A Transatlantic History
The epidemics are described in Neal Salisbury, Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, ... 1649–1776: A Missionary Society to the American Indians (London: Longmans, 1961), and William S. Simmons, ...
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A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England
In this revelatory account of the people who founded the New England colonies, historian David D. Hall compares the reforms they enacted with those attempted in England during the period of the English Revolution.
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Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England
This work offers insight into Puritan rituals, attitudes toward the natural word, and the creative tension between Puritan laity and clergy.
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Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England
... a summary of a sermon on Revelation 4:2 he copied from another source into his notebook of Cambridge church relations. ... though one was almost certainly Nathaniel Holmes, a minister who signed his full name 128 CHAPTER 4.
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Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-making in Seventeenth-century New England
Ways of Writing is about the making of texts in seventeenth-century New England, whether they were fashioned into printed books or disseminated in handwritten form.
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Bibliography and the Book Trades: Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England
Green and Johnson were thus cast onto other shifts, one to earn and the other to protect his living. Their first instinct was to lighten the competition: Johnson petitioned the General Court for permission to operate his own press in ...
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A Reforming People
[John White], T/1: Planter: Plea: Or, T/1e grounds ofpkmtationr c. ... Bush, ed., Corrrrpondemwofjo/111 Canon, p. ... The accelerating radicalism of the immigrants, especially the laity, is a major theme of Stephen Foster, T/It' Long ...
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A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England
It was probably Davenport who framed the initial question to be discussed: “Whether the Scripturs doe holde forth a perfect rule for the direction and government of all men in all dueties . . . as well as in the government of famylyes ...
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A History of the Book in America, 5-volume Omnibus E-book: Includes all Five Volumes
Originally, Massachusetts consisted of both presentday Massachusetts and Maine. Maine became a separate state in 1820. 77. ... Kaestle and Vinovskis, Education and Social Change in NineteenthCentury Massachusetts. 79.
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A History of the Book in America: Volume 3: The Industrial Book, 1840-1880
derful barometer of the increasing volume and variety of federal publications, especially after 1840. chapter 6 ... Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America (New York: Oxford University Press, ...
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Puritans in the New World: A Critical Anthology
Above all, this is a collection of texts that vividly illuminates the experience of being a Puritan in the New World. The book will be welcomed by all those who are interested in early American literature, religion, and history.
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Puritans in the New World: A Critical Anthology
How did the jeremiads and contemporary histories like Nathaniel Morton's New-Englands Memoriall (1669) characterize the “errand” of the emigrants? One way of answering this question is to note that the second-generation ministers who ...
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A History of the Book in America: Volume 5: the Enduring Book: Print Culture in Postwar America
The Enduring Book: This volume addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from Word War II to the present.
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A History of the Book in America: Volume 1, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World
They disputed miscellaneous charges for stitching , advertising , and so forth amounting to either £ 4 ... copyright law in America , there was now the problem of determining who had the right to print the next edition of Common Sense .
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Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History 1638–1693, Second Edition
This superb documentary collection illuminates the history of witchcraft and witch-hunting in seventeenth-century New England.
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The Antinomian Controversy, 1636-1638: A Documentary History
This new edition of the 1968 volume, published now for the first time in paperback, includes an expanding bibliography and a new preface, treating in more detail the prime figures of Anne Hutchinson and her chief clerical supporter, John ...
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Witch-hunting in Seventeenth-century New England: A Documentary History, 1638-1692
This superb documentary collection illuminates the history of witchcraft and witch-hunting in seventeenth-century New England. The cases examined begin in 1638, extend to the Salem outbreak in 1692, and document...
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Lived Religion in America: Toward a History of Practice
At once historically and theoretically informed, these essays invite the reader to think of religion dynamically, reconsidering American religious history in terms of practices that are linked to specific social contexts.