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  • Damnable Heresy

    William Pynchon, the Indians, and the First Book Banned (and Burned) in Boston

    by David M. Powers ...
    Misunderstandings between races, hostilities between cultures. Anxiety from living in a time of war in one's own land. Being accused of profiteering when food was scarce. Unruly residents in a remote frontier community. Charged with speaking the unspeakable and publishing the unprintable. All of this can be found in the life of one man--William Pynchon, the Puritan entrepreneur and founder of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Puritans

    A Transatlantic History

    by David D. Hall ...
    A panoramic history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New EnglandThis book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the story of America. Shedding critical new light on the diverse forms of Puritan belief and practice in England, Scotland, and New England, David Hall provides a multifaceted ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • A Reforming People

    by David D. Hall ...
    A revelatory 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.Distinguished historian David D. Hall looks afresh at how the colonists set up churches, civil governments, and methods for distributing land. Bringing with them a deep fear of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Worlds Of Wonder, Days Of Judgment

    Popular Religious Belief in Early New England

    by David D. Hall ...
    This book tells an extraordinary story of the people of early New England and their spiritual lives. It is about ordinary people--farmers, housewives, artisans, merchants, sailors, aspiring scholars--struggling to make sense of their time and place on earth. David Hall describes a world of religious consensus and resistance: a variety of conflicting beliefs and believers ranging from the committed ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A History of the Book in America

    Volume 1: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World

    by David D. Hall ...
    The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. Three major themes run through the volume: the persisting connections between the book trade in the Old World and the New, evidenced in modes of intellectual and cultural exchange and the dominance of imported, chiefly English ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • A History of the Book in America

    Volume 3: The Industrial Book, 1840-1880

    by David D. Hall ...
    Volume 3 of A History of the Book in America narrates the emergence of a national book trade in the nineteenth century, as changes in manufacturing, distribution, and publishing conditioned, and were conditioned by, the evolving practices of authors and readers. Chapters trace the ascent of the “industrial book” — a manufactured product arising from the gradual adoption of new printing, binding, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • A History of the Book in America, 5-volume Omnibus E-book

    Includes all Five Volumes

    Edited by David D. Hall ...
    The five volumes in A History of the Book in America offer a sweeping chronicle of our country's print production and culture from colonial times to the end of the twentieth century. This interdisciplinary, collaborative work of scholarship examines the book trades as they have developed and spread throughout the United States; provides a history of U.S. literary cultures; investigates the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Antinomian Controversy, 1636-1638

    A Documentary History

    Edited by David D. Hall ...
    The Antinomian controversy—a seventeenth-century theological crisis concerning salvation—was the first great intellectual crisis in the settlement of New England. Transcending the theological questions from which it arose, this symbolic controversy became a conflict between power and freedom of conscience. David D. Hall’s thorough documentary history of this episode sheds important light on ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Bibliography and the Book Trades

    Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England

    by Hugh Amory ...
    Series series Material Texts
    Hugh Amory (1930-2001) was at once the most rigorous and the most methodologically sophisticated historian of the book in early America. Gathered here are his essays, articles, and lectures on the subject, two of them printed for the first time. An introduction by David D. Hall sets this work in context and indicates its significance; Hall has also provided headnotes for each of the essays.Amory ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • A Reforming People

    Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England

    by David D. Hall ...
    In this revelatory account of the people who founded the New England colonies, historian David D. Hall compares the reforms they enacted with those attempted in England during the period of the English Revolution. Bringing with them a deep fear of arbitrary, unlimited authority, these settlers based their churches on the participation of laypeople and insisted on “consent” as a premise of all ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Puritans in the New World

    A Critical Anthology

    Edited by David D. Hall ...
    Puritans in the New World tells the story of the powerful yet turbulent culture of the English people who embarked on an "errand into the wilderness." It presents the Puritans in their own words, shedding light on the lives both of great dissenters such as Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson and of the orthodox leaders who contended against them. Classics of Puritan expression, like Mary Rowlandson ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Lived Religion in America

    Toward a History of Practice

    Edited by David D. Hall ...
    At once historically and theoretically informed, these essays invite the reader to think of religion dynamically, reconsidering American religious history in terms of practices that are linked to specific social contexts. The point of departure is the concept of "lived religion." Discussing such topics as gift exchange, cremation, hymn-singing, and women's spirituality, a group of leading ... Read more

    $38.99 USD