Saturday, July 16, 2016

PERRY MILLER AND THE NEW ENGLAND MINDSET

Perry Miller, Errand into The Wilderness (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Belknap Press/Harvard U. Press, 1956, 1984).

Perry Miller, The New England Mind: From Colony to Province (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Belknap Press/Harvard U. Press, 1953, 1982).

Perry Miller, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Belknap Press/Harvard U. Press, 1939, 1982) ("Regardless of the repute in which it may be held today, Puritanism is of immense historical importance: it was not only the most coherent and most powerful single factor in the early history of America, it was a vital expression of a crucial period in European development, and those who would understand the modern world must know something of what it was and of what heritages it has bequeathed to the present." Id. at viii.).