000435895 000__ 03569cam\a22003974a\4500 000435895 001__ 435895 000435895 005__ 20210513152256.0 000435895 008__ 101213s2011\\\\nyu\\\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000435895 010__ $$a 2010051851 000435895 020__ $$a9780679441175 000435895 020__ $$a0679441174 000435895 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn654311555 000435895 035__ $$a435895 000435895 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$cDLC$$dYDX$$dBTCTA$$dYDXCP$$dNSB$$dHSA$$dCDX$$dBWX$$dJP7$$dVVC$$dSGB$$dBDX 000435895 042__ $$apcc 000435895 043__ $$an-usn-- 000435895 049__ $$aISEA 000435895 05000 $$aF7$$b.H227 2011 000435895 08200 $$a974/.02$$222 000435895 1001_ $$aHall, David D. 000435895 24512 $$aA reforming people :$$bPuritanism and the transformation of public life in New England /$$cDavid D. Hall. 000435895 250__ $$a1st ed. 000435895 260__ $$aNew York :$$bAlfred A. Knopf,$$cc2011. 000435895 300__ $$axvii, 255 p. ;$$c25 cm. 000435895 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000435895 5050_ $$a"Arbitrary" or "democratical"? : the making of colony governments -- Land, taxes, and participation : the making of town governments -- Godly rule: empowering the saints -- An equitable society: ethics, the law, and authority -- "Already in heaven"? : church and community in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 000435895 520__ $$aThis work is an account of the aspirations and accomplishments of the people who founded the New England colonies, comparing the reforms they enacted with those attempted in England during the period of the English Revolution. The author, a historian looks afresh at how the colonists set up churches, civil governments, and methods for distributing land. Bringing with them a deep fear of arbitrary, unlimited authority grounded in either church or state, these settlers based their churches on the participation of laypeople and insisted on consent as a premise of all civil governance. Encouraging broad participation and relying on the vigorous use of petitioning, they also transformed civil and criminal law and the workings of courts. The outcome was a civil society far less authoritarian and hierarchical than was customary in their age, indeed, a society so advanced that a few dared to describe it as "democratical." They were well ahead of their time in doing so. As Puritans, the colonists also hoped to exemplify a social ethics of equity, peace, and the common good. In a case study of a single town, the author follows a minister as he encourages the townspeople to live up to these high standards in their politics. This is a book that challenges us to discard long standing stereotypes of the Puritans as temperamentally authoritarian and their leadership as despotic. The author demonstrates exactly the opposite. Here, we watch the colonists as they insist on aligning institutions and social practice with equity and liberty. This re-evaluation of the earliest moments of New England's history, reveals the colonists to be the most effective and daring reformers of their day. 000435895 650_0 $$aPuritans$$zNew England$$xHistory$$y17th century. 000435895 650_0 $$aLocal government$$zNew England$$xHistory$$y17th century. 000435895 650_0 $$aReligion and politics$$zNew England$$xHistory$$y17th century. 000435895 651_0 $$aNew England$$xHistory$$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775. 000435895 651_0 $$aNew England$$xPolitics and government$$yTo 1775. 000435895 651_0 $$aNew England$$xChurch history$$y17th century. 000435895 85200 $$bgen$$hF7$$i.H227$$i2011 000435895 85642 $$3Contributor biographical information$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1201/2010051851-b.html 000435895 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1201/2010051851-d.html 000435895 85641 $$3Sample text$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1201/2010051851-s.html 000435895 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:435895$$pGLOBAL_SET 000435895 980__ $$aBIB 000435895 980__ $$aBOOK