Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town - Softcover

Powell, Sumner Chilton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819560146 ISBN 13: 9780819560148

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 1970

Synopsis

An award-winning study of Puritans and the formation of their towns.

About this title

About the Author

SUMNER CHILTON POWELL is a 1946 graduate of Amherst and received a doctorate from Harvard ten years later. A teacher of history on the secondary level (Choate, Bernard School for Boys), he has done much experimental work in tape teaching. This book - his third, but his first for an adult audience - was the culmination of ten years' detective work among local records, archives, and private collections I the U.S. and England. It received the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1964.

From the Back Cover

The crucial split in the town of Sadbury illustrates the grave difficulties which the early leaders and inhabitants experienced in substituting a new social structure and a new spirit for the old 'hierarchy, hold days, etc.' which they undoubtedly hoped would be absent in the New England common-wealth. One might even see the story of early Sadbury as a type of local morality play, replete with Devil, Greed, and Ambition, opposed by both Faith and Prudence.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819560146
• ISBN 13: 9780819560148
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 255