The New England Mind by Perry Miller
In The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, as well as successor The New England Mind: From Colony to Province, Perry Miller asserts a single intellectual history for America that could be traced to the Puritan belief system.
A fascinating and indispensable book* Saturday Review *
This classic work towers over the great mass of subsequent scholarship, and remains after forty years our single best work on American Puritanism… For many years to come every serious student of American Puritanism will still have to begin by reading The New England Mind. -- James Hoopes
A magnificent book, the most illuminating and convincing interpretation of Puritanism that I know and a model example of intellectual historiography. Miller seems to possess a rare combination of gifts and acquired intellectual virtues—disciplined faithfulness to sources, philosophical insight and outlook, creative imagination. -- H. Richard Niebuhr
The New England Mind is an authoritative description of Puritanism, the most subtle and most fully coherent intellectual system which has ever functioned as the official code of an American regional society… The book is the best single illustration of what is meant by ‘the history of ideas’ as a method of dealing with American materials. -- Henry Nash Smith
This classic work towers over the great mass of subsequent scholarship, and remains after forty years our single best work on American Puritanism… For many years to come every serious student of American Puritanism will still have to begin by reading The New England Mind. -- James Hoopes
A magnificent book, the most illuminating and convincing interpretation of Puritanism that I know and a model example of intellectual historiography. Miller seems to possess a rare combination of gifts and acquired intellectual virtues—disciplined faithfulness to sources, philosophical insight and outlook, creative imagination. -- H. Richard Niebuhr
The New England Mind is an authoritative description of Puritanism, the most subtle and most fully coherent intellectual system which has ever functioned as the official code of an American regional society… The book is the best single illustration of what is meant by ‘the history of ideas’ as a method of dealing with American materials. -- Henry Nash Smith
Perry Miller is a doctor with a computer science doctorate. He was a professor of anesthesiology at Yale School of Medicine for many years, as well as the director of Yale's Center for Medical Informatics, which investigated the innovative use of computers in medicine. He has always enjoyed writing, but has only recently published articles and books on computer and medical research. He's very delighted to be writing fiction, and he intends to bring a strong sense of authenticity to the intersection of these two areas. He and his wife live near their children and grandchildren in the Boston region.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674613065 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674613066 |
| Title | The New England Mind |
| Author | Perry Miller |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 1983-04-15 |
| Number of pages | 542 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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