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John Winthrop - Biography as History (Paperback)
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John Winthrop - Biography as History (Paperback)
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John Winthrop (1588-1649) was the first governor of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony and is generally considered the principal
architect of early New England society. In placing his life in the
context of the times, Bremer discusses Winthrop's family life and
the challenges of life faced by men, women, and children in the
seventeenth century. John Winthrop (1588-1649) was the first
governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and is generally
considered the principal architect of early New England society. He
led the colonists through the initial struggles to survive in a new
world, shaped the political organizations that gave the colonists
the right to govern themselves through elected governors and
representatives, worked to mediate between those who advanced
radical religious and political ideas on the one hand and those who
sought a very narrowly defined orthodoxy, and contributed to the
development of a system of education which insured the preservation
of the founders' heritage. The details of this brief biography is
drawn from the author's larger, prize-winning study of "John
Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father" (Oxford University
Press, 2003), though modified in minor ways by his ongoing
research. To render it more accessible to an undergraduate
audience, Bremer avoids in-depth discussion of theology and other
specialized topics and focus instead on trying to provide students
with an appreciation of how Winthrop's world differed from theirs,
but how at the same time he dealt with issues that continue to
resonate in our own society. In placing his life in the context of
the times, Bremer discusses Winthrop's family life and the
challenges of life faced by men, women, and children in the
seventeenth century. The key themes that are integrated into the
biographical narrative are: how Winthrop's religion was shaped by
the times and in turn how it influenced his family life and the
moral outlook that he brought to his political career; his
understanding of society as a community in which individuals had to
subordinate their individual goals to the advancement of the common
good; and, his struggle to define where the line needed to be drawn
between new or different ideas that enriched religious and
political growth, and those that threatened the stability of a
society.
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