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An analysis of the basic beliefs held by the New England Puritans on religion, education, cosmology, and man. Notes

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9780674613058, titled "The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century" | Harvard Univ Pr, January 1, 1939, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: The late Perry Miller once stated, "I have been compelled to insist that the mind of man is the basic factor in human history," and his study of the mind in America has shaped the thought of three decades of scholars.

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9780674613065 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, April 15, 1983), cover price $43.50 | About this edition: An analysis of the basic beliefs held by the New England Puritans on religion, education, cosmology, and man.

Product Description: A reviewer of the first edition (1936) of Professor Morison's book wrote that …because his endeavor is to show that seventeenth century America is more knowable than we thought, and partly because his method is wherever possible objective…he comes as near success in his task as any man perhaps may come...read more

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9780313220326, titled "The Intellectual Life of Colonial New England" | Reprint edition (Greenwood Pub Group, February 1, 1980), cover price $36.95 | About this edition: A reviewer of the first edition (1936) of Professor Morison's book wrote that …because his endeavor is to show that seventeenth century America is more knowable than we thought, and partly because his method is wherever possible objective…he comes as near success in his task as any man perhaps may come.

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9780801490118 | Cornell Univ Pr, April 1, 1960, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Cornell University Press (1966)

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9780837139906 | Praeger Pub Text, August 1, 1970, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: *** please read this *** Library markings - no marks on text - Next day shipping - tracking number - 4-A-47

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Selected essays offer historical interpretations of the Puritans and their way of life

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9780669827194 | 2 edition (D C Heath & Co, June 1, 1973), cover price $15.33 | About this edition: Selected essays offer historical interpretations of the Puritans and their way of life

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Anne Bradstreet, Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin and six other American authors are discussed in this anthology of essays about the quality and concerns of seventeenth and eighteenth-century literature. Bibliogs

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9780299061906 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, October 1, 1973, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Anne Bradstreet, Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin and six other American authors are discussed in this anthology of essays about the quality and concerns of seventeenth and eighteenth-century literature.

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9780299061944 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, February 15, 1976, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Anne Bradstreet, Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin and six other American authors are discussed in this anthology of essays about the quality and concerns of seventeenth and eighteenth-century literature.

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The major themes, leading exponents, style, and genres of early American literature are investigated
By Sacvan Bercovitch (compiler)

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9780521098410 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 28, 1974, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: The major themes, leading exponents, style, and genres of early American literature are investigated

The major themes, leading exponents, style, and genres of early American literature are investigated
By Sacvan Bercovitch (compiler)

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9780521203920 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1974, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The major themes, leading exponents, style, and genres of early American literature are investigated

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Product Description: Book by Leverenz, David

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9780813508825 | Rutgers Univ Pr, January 1, 1980, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Book by Leverenz, David

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Essays examine the works of Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, John Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and other seventeenth and eighteenth century American writers
By Michael T. Gilmore (editor)

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9780132225137 | Prentice Hall Direct, September 1, 1980, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Essays examine the works of Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, John Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and other seventeenth and eighteenth century American writers

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Product Description: A. Owen Aldridge shows that early American literature is not an isolated phenomenon, but one affected by the same influences which operated upon other literatures of the period. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press...read more

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9780691065175 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 1982, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: A.

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Product Description: Elliott demonstrates how America's first men of letters--Timothy Dwight, Joel Barlow, Philip Freneau, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and Charles Brockden Brown--sought to make individual genius in literature express the collective genius of the American people...read more

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9780195039955 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 27, 1986), cover price $67.00 | About this edition: Elliott demonstrates how America's first men of letters--Timothy Dwight, Joel Barlow, Philip Freneau, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and Charles Brockden Brown--sought to make individual genius in literature express the collective genius of the American people.

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Product Description: The book explores various elements of Southern culture through the filter of well-known Southern authors and legends.

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9780878753055 | Whitston Pub Co Inc, March 1, 1986, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The book explores various elements of Southern culture through the filter of well-known Southern authors and legends.

Product Description: This book, the second volume in Seelye's series on the rivers of America in the American imagination, explores how George Washington's vision of a "more perfect union" for America--based upon the linking of the nation's waterways by technical means--was carried out...read more

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9780195045512 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This book, the second volume in Seelye's series on the rivers of America in the American imagination, explores how George Washington's vision of a "more perfect union" for America--based upon the linking of the nation's waterways by technical means--was carried out.

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Product Description: Nelson provides a study of the ways in which Anglo-American authors constructed "race" in their works from the time of the first British colonists through the period of the Civil War. She focuses on some eleven texts, ranging from widely-known to little-considered, that deal with the relations among Native, African, and Anglo-Americans, and places her readings in the historical, social, and material contexts of an evolving U...read more

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9780195065923 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 2, 1992, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: Nelson provides a study of the ways in which Anglo-American authors constructed "race" in their works from the time of the first British colonists through the period of the Civil War.

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Product Description: This collection reflects changing concepts in the field of early American literature. Studies by leading scholars celebrate the achievements of Harrison T. Meserole--colonialist, bibliographer, and Shakespeare scholar extraordinaire.

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9780874134230 | Univ of Delaware Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $39.50 | About this edition: This collection reflects changing concepts in the field of early American literature.

Product Description: This collection of new essays enters one of the most topical and energetic debates of our time--the subject of ethnicity. The recent vigorous debates being waged over questions raised by the phenomenon of multiculturalism in America highlight the fact that American culture has arisen out of an unusually rich and interactive ethnic mix...read more
By Frank Shuffelton (editor)

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9780195075229 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 29, 1993, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This collection of new essays enters one of the most topical and energetic debates of our time--the subject of ethnicity.

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9780195075236 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 29, 1993, cover price $73.00 | About this edition: This collection of new essays enters one of the most topical and energetic debates of our time--the subject of ethnicity.

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9780253324092 | Indiana Univ Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $38.25

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9780253207869 | Indiana Univ Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: From the time of its first appearance, the story of Pocahontas has provided the terms of a flexible discourse that has been put to multiple, and at times contradictory, uses. Centering around her legendary rescue of John Smith from the brink of execution and her subsequent marriage to a white Jamestown colonist, the Pocahontas convention became a source of national debate over such broad issues as miscegenation, racial conflict, and colonial expansion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780521461894 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: From the time of its first appearance, the story of Pocahontas has provided the terms of a flexible discourse that has been put to multiple, and at times contradictory, uses.

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9780521469593 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $54.99

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Product Description: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in American Literature discusses how, where, and to what extent Rousseau's philosophy can be traced in the first one-hundred years of American literature. It examines this problem by using original quotations from such works as Emile, Du Contrat Social, and Discours sur l'Inégalité, and compares them with examples from sixteen American authors and the Connecticut Wits without forcing them into a desired picture...read more

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9780820429700 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 1, 1996, cover price $70.95 | About this edition: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in American Literature discusses how, where, and to what extent Rousseau's philosophy can be traced in the first one-hundred years of American literature.
9783631497043 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 1, 1996, cover price $70.95 | About this edition: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in American Literature discusses how, where, and to what extent Rousseau's philosophy can be traced in the first one-hundred years of American literature.

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