Download or read book Puritanism the Wilderness and the Frontier written by Alan Heimert and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Puritanism and the Wilderness written by Peter N. Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Puritanism and the Wilderness written by Peter N. Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Puritanism and the Wilderness written by Peter Neil Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poetics and Politics of the Desert written by Catrin Gersdorf and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the ways in which the desert, as topographical space and cultural presence, shaped and reshaped concepts and images of America. Once a territory outside the geopolitical and cultural borders of the United States, the deserts of the West and Southwest have since emerged as canonical American landscapes. Drawing on the critical concepts of American studies and on questions and problems raised in recent debates on ecocriticism, The Poetics and Politics of the Desert investigates the spatial rhetoric of America as it developed in view of arid landscapes since the mid-nineteenth century. Gersdorf argues that the integration of the desert into America catered to the entire spectrum of ideological and political responses to the history and culture of the US, maintaining that the Americanization of this landscape was and continues to be staged within the idiomatic parameters and in reaction to the discursive authority of four spatial metaphors: garden, wilderness, Orient, and heterotopia.
Download or read book Reexamining the Wilderness Experience written by Wesley Fiorentino and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wilderness of the New World presented a complex set of issues for English settlers. While frontier life offered no small degree of physical demand and danger, long-held beliefs about wild frontier colored the imaginations of New Englanders. Physical danger was paralleled with the danger posed by the spiritually barren wasteland before them. The wilderness around them threatened to break down their social institutions and turn them savage. Native Americans were seen as an extension of the wilderness predicament. To Anglo-Americans, the Natives represented the logical conclusion to the process of de-civilization they so greatly feared. This anxiety was present in some of the earliest writings of Puritan New England, and would remain consistent throughout the seventeenth century and beyond. Histories, sermons, and memoirs expressed the resentment felt by the Puritans for the untamed wilderness before them. The prevailing social ideal was that society as a whole contended with the dangers of the frontier. King Philip's War was seen by many leaders in New England as the ultimate clash between the wilderness and civilized New England. The writings stemming from this conflict, including captivity narratives and frontier tracts, addressed this same dichotomy but from new perspectives. Whereas once, the ministry had stressed the need for social cohesion in the face of the boundless forests and their Native inhabitants, captivity narratives and memoirs of frontiersmen provided an individualistic mode of expression. This only accentuated the independence felt by many who subverted the collective Puritan ideal as they expanded further into the New World, and the accounts of their experiences were impressed in the literary imagination of America for generations to come.
Download or read book Sword of the Wilderness written by Wesley Fiorentino and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wilderness of the New World presented a complex set of issues for English settlers. While frontier life offered no small degree of physical demand and danger, long-held beliefs about wild frontier colored the imaginations of New Englanders. Physical danger was paralleled with the danger posed by the spiritually barren wasteland before them. The wilderness around them threatened to break down their social institutions and turn them savage. Native Americans were seen as an extension of the wilderness predicament. To Anglo-Americans, the Natives represented the logical conclusion to the process of de-civilization they so greatly feared. This anxiety was present in some of the earliest writings of Puritan New England, and would remain consistent throughout the seventeenth century and beyond. Histories, sermons, and memoirs expressed the resentment felt by the Puritans for the untamed wilderness before them. The prevailing social ideal was that society as a whole contended with the dangers of the frontier. King Philip's War was seen by many leaders in New England as the ultimate clash between the wilderness and civilized New England. The writings stemming from this conflict, including captivity narratives and frontier tracts, addressed this same dichotomy but from new perspectives. Whereas once, the ministry had stressed the need for social cohesion in the face of the boundless forests and their Native inhabitants, captivity narratives and memoirs of frontiersmen provided an individualistic mode of expression. This only accentuated the independence felt by many who subverted the collective Puritan ideal as they expanded further into the New World, and the accounts of their experiences were impressed in the literary imagination of America for generations to come.
Download or read book Exile and Kingdom written by Avihu Zakai and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ideological origins of the Puritan migration to and experience in America.
Download or read book Wilderness and the American Mind written by Roderick Frazier Nash and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVRoderick Nash’s classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of “books that changed our world,” and it has been called the “Book of Genesis for environmentalists.” For the fifth edition, Nash has written a new preface and epilogue that brings Wilderness and the American Mind into dialogue with contemporary debates about wilderness. Char Miller’s foreword provides a twenty-first-century perspective on how the environmental movement has changed, including the ways in which contemporary scholars are reimagining the dynamic relationship between the natural world and the built environment./div
Download or read book Errand Into the Wilderness written by Perry Miller and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of this book by Perry Miller, who is world-famous as an interpreter of the American past, comes close to posing the question it has been Mr. Miller's lifelong purpose to answer: What was the underlying aim of the first colonists in coming to America? In what light did they see themselves? As men and women undertaking a mission that was its own cause and justification? Or did they consider themselves errand boys for a higher power which might, as is frequently the habit of authority, change its mind about the importance of their job before they had completed it? These questions are by no means frivolous. They go to the roots of seventeenth-century thought and of the ever-widening and quickening flow of events since then. Disguised from twentieth-century readers first by the New Testament language and thought of the Puritans and later by the complacent transcendentalist belief in the oversoul, the related problems of purpose and reason-for-being have been central to the American experience from the very beginning. Mr. Miller makes this abundantly clear and real, and in doing so allows the reader to conclude that, whatever else America might have become, it could never have developed into a society that took itself for granted. The title, Errand into the Wilderness, is taken from the title of a Massachusetts election sermon of 1670. Like so many jeremiads of its time, this sermon appeared to be addressed to the sinful and unregenerate whom God was about to destroy. But the original speaker's underlying concern was with the fateful ambiguity in the word errand. Whose errand? This crucial uncertainty of the age is the starting point of Mr. Miller's engrossing account of what happened to the European mind when, in spite of itself, it began to become something other than European. For the second generation in America discovered that their heroic parents had, in fact, been sent on a fool's errand, the bitterest kind of all; that the dream of a model society to be built in purity by the elect in the new continent was now a dream that meant nothing more to Europe. The emigrants were on their own. Thus left alone with America, who were they? And what were they to do? In this book, as in all his work, the author of The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century; The New England Mind: From Colony to Province, and The Transcendentalists, emphasizes the need for understanding the human sources from which the American mainstream has risen. In this integrated series of brilliant and witty essays which he describes as pieces, Perry Miller invites and stimulates in the reader a new conception of his own inheritance.
Download or read book Dangerous Nation written by Robert Kagan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Americans believe the United States had been an isolationist power until the twentieth century. This is wrong. In a riveting and brilliantly revisionist work of history, Robert Kagan, bestselling author of Of Paradise and Power, shows how Americans have in fact steadily been increasing their global power and influence from the beginning. Driven by commercial, territorial, and idealistic ambitions, the United States has always perceived itself, and been seen by other nations, as an international force. This is a book of great importance to our understanding of our nation’s history and its role in the global community.
Download or read book Forth to the Wilderness the First American Frontier 1754 1774 written by Dale Van Every and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Significance of the Frontier in American History written by Frederick Jackson Turner and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2014 Reprint of 1894 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. The "Frontier Thesis" or "Turner Thesis," is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1894 that American democracy was formed by the American Frontier. He stressed the process-the moving frontier line-and the impact it had on pioneers going through the process. He also stressed consequences of a ostensibly limitless frontier and that American democracy and egalitarianism were the principle results. In Turner's thesis the American frontier established liberty by releasing Americans from European mindsets and eroding old, dysfunctional customs. The frontier had no need for standing armies, established churches, aristocrats or nobles, nor for landed gentry who controlled most of the land and charged heavy rents. Frontier land was free for the taking. Turner first announced his thesis in a paper entitled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," delivered to the American Historical Association in 1893 in Chicago. He won very wide acclaim among historians and intellectuals. Turner's emphasis on the importance of the frontier in shaping American character influenced the interpretation found in thousands of scholarly histories. By the time Turner died in 1932, 60% of the leading history departments in the U.S. were teaching courses in frontier history along Turnerian lines.
Download or read book Puritanism and the American Experience written by Michael McGiffert and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Wilderness to Wasteland written by Charles Berryman and published by Kennikat Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Puritans in the New World written by David D. Hall and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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's captivity narrative, Anne Bradstreet's poetry, and William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation appear alongside texts that are less well known but no less important: confessions of religious experience by lay people, the "diabolical" possession of a young woman, and the testimony of Native Americans who accept Christianity. Hall's chapter introductions provide a running history of Puritanism in seventeenth-century New England and alert readers to important scholarship. Above all, this is a collection of texts that vividly illuminates the experience of being a Puritan in the New World. The book will be welcomed by all those who are interested in early American literature, religion, and history.
Download or read book Power and the Pulpit in Puritan New England written by Emory Elliott and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, scholars have attempted to understand the powerful hold that the sermon had upon the imagination of New England Puritans. In this book Emory Elliott puts forth a complex and striking thesis: that Puritan religious literature provided the myths and metaphors that helped the people to express their deepest doubts and fears, feelings created by their particular cultural situation and aroused by the crucial social events of seventeenth-century America. In his early chapters, the author defines the psychological needs of the second- and third-generation Puritans, arguing that these needs arose from the generational conflict between the founders and their children and from the methods of child rearing and religious education employed in Puritan New England. In the later chapters, he reveals how the ministers responded to the crisis in their society by reshaping theology and constructing in their sermons a religious language that helped to fulfill the most urgent psychological needs of the people. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
