Author: John Abbot Goodwin
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The Puritan Conspiracy Against the Pilgrim Fathers and the Congregational Church, 1624
Author: John Abbot Goodwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Publisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Plots, Designs, and Schemes
Author: Michael Butter
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110346931
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Plots, Designs, and Schemes is the first study that investigates the long history of American conspiracy theories from the perspective of literary and cultural studies. Since research in these fields has so far almost exclusively focused on the contemporary period, the book concentrates on the time before 1960. Four detailed case studies offer close readings of the Salem witchcraft crisis of 1692, fears of Catholic invasion during the 1830s to 1850s, antebellum conspiracy theories about slavery, and anxieties about Communist subversion during the 1950s. The study primarily engages with factual texts, such as sermons, pamphlets, political speeches, and confessional narratives, but it also analyzes how fears of conspiracy were dramatized and negotiated in fictional texts, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown (1835) or Hermann Melville's Benito Cereno (1855). The book offers three central insights: 1. The American predilection for conspiracy theorizing can be traced back to the co-presence and persistence of a specific epistemological paradigm that relates all effects to intentional human action, the ideology of republicanism, and the Puritan heritage. 2. Until far into the twentieth century, conspiracy theories were considered a perfectly legitimate form of knowledge. As such, they shaped how many Americans, elites as well as “common” people, understood and reacted to historical events. The Revolutionary War and the Civil War would not have occurred without widespread conspiracy theories. 3. Although most extant research claims the opposite, conspiracy theories have never been as marginal and unimportant as in the past decades. Their disqualification as stigmatized knowledge only occurred around 1960, and coincided with a shift from theories that detect conspiracies directed against the government to conspiracies by the government.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110346931
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Plots, Designs, and Schemes is the first study that investigates the long history of American conspiracy theories from the perspective of literary and cultural studies. Since research in these fields has so far almost exclusively focused on the contemporary period, the book concentrates on the time before 1960. Four detailed case studies offer close readings of the Salem witchcraft crisis of 1692, fears of Catholic invasion during the 1830s to 1850s, antebellum conspiracy theories about slavery, and anxieties about Communist subversion during the 1950s. The study primarily engages with factual texts, such as sermons, pamphlets, political speeches, and confessional narratives, but it also analyzes how fears of conspiracy were dramatized and negotiated in fictional texts, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown (1835) or Hermann Melville's Benito Cereno (1855). The book offers three central insights: 1. The American predilection for conspiracy theorizing can be traced back to the co-presence and persistence of a specific epistemological paradigm that relates all effects to intentional human action, the ideology of republicanism, and the Puritan heritage. 2. Until far into the twentieth century, conspiracy theories were considered a perfectly legitimate form of knowledge. As such, they shaped how many Americans, elites as well as “common” people, understood and reacted to historical events. The Revolutionary War and the Civil War would not have occurred without widespread conspiracy theories. 3. Although most extant research claims the opposite, conspiracy theories have never been as marginal and unimportant as in the past decades. Their disqualification as stigmatized knowledge only occurred around 1960, and coincided with a shift from theories that detect conspiracies directed against the government to conspiracies by the government.
The Rise of the New Puritans
Author: Noah Rothman
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063160013
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” -H.L. Mencken The Left used to be the party of the hippies and the free spirits. Now it’s home to woke scolds and humorless idealogues. The New Puritans can judge a person’s moral character by their clothes, Netflix queue, fast food favorites, the sports they watch, and the company they keep. No choice is neutral, no sphere is private. Not since the Puritans has a political movement wanted so much power over your thoughts, hobbies, and preferences every minute of your day. In the process, they are sucking the joy out of life. In The Rise of the New Puritans, Noah Rothman explains how, in pursuit of a better world, progressives are ruining the very things which make life worth living. They’ve created a society full of verbal trip wires and digital witch hunts. Football? Too violent. Fusion food? Appropriation. The nuclear family? Oppressive. Witty, deeply researched, and thorough, The Rise of the New Puritans encourages us to spurn a movement whose primary goal has become limiting happiness. It uncovers the historical roots of the left’s war on fun and reminds us of the freedom and personal fulfillment at the heart of the American experiment.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063160013
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” -H.L. Mencken The Left used to be the party of the hippies and the free spirits. Now it’s home to woke scolds and humorless idealogues. The New Puritans can judge a person’s moral character by their clothes, Netflix queue, fast food favorites, the sports they watch, and the company they keep. No choice is neutral, no sphere is private. Not since the Puritans has a political movement wanted so much power over your thoughts, hobbies, and preferences every minute of your day. In the process, they are sucking the joy out of life. In The Rise of the New Puritans, Noah Rothman explains how, in pursuit of a better world, progressives are ruining the very things which make life worth living. They’ve created a society full of verbal trip wires and digital witch hunts. Football? Too violent. Fusion food? Appropriation. The nuclear family? Oppressive. Witty, deeply researched, and thorough, The Rise of the New Puritans encourages us to spurn a movement whose primary goal has become limiting happiness. It uncovers the historical roots of the left’s war on fun and reminds us of the freedom and personal fulfillment at the heart of the American experiment.
The history of the Puritans or Protestant non-conformists. repr. from dr. Toulmin's ed
Author: Daniel Neal
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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The Puritans
Author: Samuel Hopkins
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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History of the Puritans in England and the Pilgrim Fathers
Author: William Hendry Stowell
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Category : Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Publisher:
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Category : Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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History of the Puritans in England, and The Pilgrim Fathers
Author:
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Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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The History of the Puritans, Or, Protestant Noncomformists, from the Reformation to the Death of Queen Elizabeth ; with an Account of Their Principles, Their Attempts for a Farther Reformation in the Church, Their Sufferings, and the Lives and Characters of Their Most Considerable Divines
Author: Daniel Neal
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Category : Puritans
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Publisher:
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Category : Puritans
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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The History of the Puritans, Or Protestant Non-conformists
Author: Daniel Neal
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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History of the Puritans in England, and the Pilgrim Fathers. The Puritans in England by ... W. H. Stowell ... The Pilgrim Fathers by D. Wilson
Author: William Hendry STOWELL
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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