Three major sections of a great historian's last work: I. The Evangelical Basis; II. The Legal Mentality; III. Science-Theoretical and Applied. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History.
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Perry G. Miller (February 25, 1905, Chicago USA - December 9, 1963) was an American intellectual historian and Harvard University professor. He was an authority on American Puritanism. Alfred Kazin referred to him as "the master of American intellectual history".
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- 1933. Orthodoxy in Massachusetts, 1630-1650.
- 1939. The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century.
- 1949. Jonathan Edwards.
- 1953. The New England Mind: From Colony to Province.
- 1956. Errand into the Wilderness.
- 1956. The American Puritans. (editor)
- 1957. The American Transcendentalists, their Prose and Poetry.
- 1957. The Raven and the Whale: Poe, Melville and the New York Literary Scene.
- 1958. Consciousness in Concord: The Text of Thoreau’s Hitherto “Lost Journal”.
- 1961. The Legal Mind in America: from Independence to the Civil War.
- 1965. Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War.
Miller also wrote intellectual biographies of Jonathan Edwards (1949) and Roger Williams (1953).
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A classic examination of the intellectual life after the birth of America. All serious students and scholars of American literature and history must read this book.
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"A revival of Religion," proclaimed the Reverend Finney, "presupposes a declension." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, United States, New England, Supreme Court, Joseph Story, James Kent, Natty Bumppo, Horace Binney, South Carolina, The Christian Spectator, Cane Ridge, George Tucker, Robert Baird, Daniel Webster, Lyman Beecher, Rufus Choate, The North American Review, Andrew Jackson, James Wilson, David Hoffman, The Spirit of the Pilgrims, Timothy Walker, Abner Kneeland, American Protestantism, French Revolution New!
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"A revival of Religion," proclaimed the Reverend Finney, "presupposes a declension." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, United States, New England, Supreme Court, Joseph Story, James Kent, Natty Bumppo, Horace Binney, South Carolina, The Christian Spectator, Cane Ridge, George Tucker, Robert Baird, Daniel Webster, Lyman Beecher, Rufus Choate, The North American Review, Andrew Jackson, James Wilson, David Hoffman, The Spirit of the Pilgrims, Timothy Walker, Abner Kneeland, American Protestantism, French Revolution New!
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- Revivals of religion (Christian classics) by Charles G. Finney on page 18, page 77, and page 86
- Home as Found by James Fenimore Cooper on page 29, and page 33
- The Ways of the Hour (Pocket Classics and Other Literature) by J. Fenimore Cooper on page 180, and page 249
- Home as Found by Fenimore James Cooper on page 29, and page 33
- The New England Mind: From Colony to Province by Perry Miller in Front Matter
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- Law, Labor, and Ideology in the Early American Republic by Christopher L. Tomlins on 4 pages
- Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature: Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Brook Thomas on 4 pages
- American Legal Thought from Premodernism to Postmodernism: An Intellectual Voyage by Stephen M. Feldman in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Beyond a Christian Commonwealth: The Protestant Quarrel with the American Republic, 1830-1860 by Mark Y. Hanley in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Heart versus Head: Judge-Made Law in Nineteenth-Century America (Studies in Legal History) by Peter Karsten in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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