@article{1447306,
      recid = {1447306},
      author = {Smith, William R.,},
      title = {Benjamin Coleman's epistolary world, 1688-1755 :  networking in the dissenting Atlantic /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This book tells the story of the Rev. Benjamin Colman  (1673-1747), one of eighteenth-century Americas most  influential ministers, and his transatlantic social world  of letters. Exploring his epistolary network reveals how  imperial culture diffused through the British Atlantic and  formed the Dissenting Interest in America, England, and  Scotland. Traveling to and living in England between  1695-1699, Colman forged enduring connections with English  Dissenters that would animate and define his ministry for  nearly a half century. The chapters reassemble Colmans  epistolary web to illuminate the Dissenting Interests broad  range of activities through the circulation of Dissenting  histories, libraries, missionaries, revival news, and  provincial defenses of religious liberty. This book argues  that over the course of Colmans life the Dissenting  Interest integrated, extended, and ultimately detached,  presenting the history of Protestant Dissent as  fundamentally a transatlantic story shaped by the  provincial edges of the British Empire. William R. Smith is  Associate Director of the Helmerich Center for American  Research at Gilcrease Museum and Co-Director of the Museum  Science and Management graduate program at the University  of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. Specializing in the  history of eighteenth-century North America and Atlantic  studies, he has taught courses in American religious  history and archival studies at the University of Notre  Dame, Oklahoma State University, and the University of  Tulsa.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1447306},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96670-6},
}