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Liberalism, Puritanism and the Colonial Mind - Main Currents in American Thought, Volume I (Paperback)
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Liberalism, Puritanism and the Colonial Mind - Main Currents in American Thought, Volume I (Paperback)
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In "Liberalism, Puritanism and the Colonial Mind," Parrington gives
a brilliant account of the beginning and development in American
letters, the early ideas that have come to be reckoned as
traditionally American--how they came into being, how they were
opposed, and what influence they have exerted in determining the
form and scope of our ideals and institutions. In doing so, the
author follows the path of political, economic, and social
development. This first of a three-volume work carries the account
from early beginnings in Puritan New England to the triumph of
Jefferson and back-country agrarianism. This first part of "Main
Currents in American Thought" deals with intellectual backgrounds,
especially with those diverse systems of European thought that have
domesticated themselves in America. Parrington examines the
legacies of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe to the
colonial settlements and, in particular, the transplanting to
America of old-world liberalisms. The liberalisms discussed in this
book derive from two primary sources, English Independency and
French Romantic theory, supplemented by English Whiggery. From the
first came the revolutionary doctrine of natural rights, clarified
by thinkers ranging from Roger Williams to John Locke. A doctrine
that destroyed the philosophical sanction of divine right and
substituted it for the traditional absolutism was formed. This
struggle largely determined the course of development in early New
England. A new introduction by Bruce Brown highlights the life of
Vernon Louis Parrington and explains the importance of this
Pulitzer-Prize winning study.
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