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Description edit
The years from 1690 to 1765 in America have usually been considered a waiting period before the Revolution. Mr. Bushman, in his penetrating study of colonial Connecticut, takes another view. He shows how, during these years, economic ambition and religious ferment profoundly altered the... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Windham: Add a description of this character.
- Samuel Johnson
- Roger Wolcott
- B. Trumbull
- Gurdon Saltonstall
- Bellamy
- Jonathan Edwards
- E. Stiles
- H. R. Stiles
- Steiner
- Caulkins
- Viii
- Judd
- Bronson
- Schenck
- Jared Ingersoll
- I. Backus
- Henry Ashurst
- Whitefield
- Graham
- Jared Eliot
- Hart
- Frothingham
- John Winthrop
- Dickinson
- Nott
- Woodbury
- Samuel Willis
- Thomas Clap
- Beardsley
- Orcutt
- Elisha Williams
- Woodward
- C. Mather
- Weaver
- Tucker
- Fitch
- Talcott
- Gale
- S. W. Adams
- Wadsworth
- Bailyn
Setting & Locations edit
- Connecticut River
- Norwich
- New England
- New London County
- East Windsor
- Fairfield
- Baptists
- Massachusetts
- Waterbury
- Rhode Island
- Yale
- Wallingford
- New Haven
- New Milford
- Boston
- Upper House
- Canterbury
- Lebanon
- New York
- Stonington
- Stratford
- Wethersfield
- Providence
- Brainerd
- Northampton
- Plainfield
- Lower House
- Gospel
- Newport
- Lisbon
- Groton
- Cambridge Platform
- Colchester
- Quinebaug
- Ashford
- Calvinism
- Durham
- New Divinity
- Jonathan Trumbull
- Town Votes
- Bulkley
- Norwalk
First Sentence edit
IN THE LAST QUARTER of the seventeenth century the Puritan rulers of Connecticut order above all other social virtues.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Richard L. Bushman (Author)
Awards edit
- Bancroft Prize (1968)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 974.602
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › State & Local › New England
- Books › History › Americas › United States › State & Local › Connecticut
- Books › Reference › Genealogy › United States › Connecticut
- Books › History › Americas › United States › Colonial Period
- Books › History › Historical Study › Social History
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Religious Studies › Church & State
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