Under the Cope of Heaven : Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America
Under the Cope of Heaven : Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America

Author: Patricia U. Bonomi Professor of History New York University (Emerita)

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2003-07-10

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0199729115

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In this pathbreaking study, Patricia Bonomi argues that religion was as instrumental as either politics or the economy in shaping early American life and values. Looking at the middle and southern colonies as well as at Puritan New England, Bonomi finds an abundance of religious vitality through the colonial years among clergy and churchgoers of diverse religious background. The book also explores the tightening relationship between religion and politics and illuminates the vital role religion played in the American Revolution. A perennial backlist title first published in 1986, this updated edition includes a new preface on research in the field on African Americans, Indians, women, the Great Awakening, and Atlantic history and how these impact her interpretations.

Under the Cope of Heaven
Under the Cope of Heaven

Author: Patricia U. Bonomi

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2003-07-10

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0199883033

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In this pathbreaking study, Patricia Bonomi argues that religion was as instrumental as either politics or the economy in shaping early American life and values. Looking at the middle and southern colonies as well as at Puritan New England, Bonomi finds an abundance of religious vitality through the colonial years among clergy and churchgoers of diverse religious background. The book also explores the tightening relationship between religion and politics and illuminates the vital role religion played in the American Revolution. A perennial backlist title first published in 1986, this updated edition includes a new preface on research in the field on African Americans, Indians, women, the Great Awakening, and Atlantic history and how these impact her interpretations.

The Indians of New Jersey
The Indians of New Jersey

Author: William Nelson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-23

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780331734966

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Excerpt from The Indians of New Jersey: Their Origin and Development; Manners and Customs; Language, Religion and Government Nora - Pages 1-140 of this work were printed in the latter part of the year 1892 and the spring of 1893. The remainder was printed in April and May, 1894. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

New Jersey
New Jersey

Author: Roberta Wiener

Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9780739868836

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A detailed look at the formation of the colony of New Jersey, its government, and its overall history, plus a prologue on world events in 1664 and an epilogue on New Jersey today.

A Perfect Babel of Confusion
A Perfect Babel of Confusion

Author: Randall Herbert Balmer

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Examining the interaction of the Dutch and the English in colonial New York and New Jersey, this study charts the decline of European culture in North America. Balmer argues that the combination of political intrigue, English cultural imperialism, and internal socio-economic tensions eventually drove the Dutch away from their hereditary customs, language, and culture. He shows how this process, which played itself out most visibly and poignantly in the Dutch Reformed Church between 1664 and the American Revolution, illustrates the difficulty of maintaining non-English cultures and institutions in an increasingly English world. A Perfect Babel of Confusion redresses some of the historiographical neglect of the Middle Colonies and, in the process, sheds new light on Dutch colonial culture.