Puritan Ideology of Mobility - Corporatism, Politics of Place Founding of New England Towns Before

The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 presents the ideology of mobility which Puritan leaders developed to justify migration and town founding. New England towns were born as living "bodies politic" with a metaphysical basis in keeping with Christian corporatist theory.

List of contents

List of Figures; Preface: Protestant Scholasticism and Puritan Ideology; Acknowledgments; A Note on Dates; Chapter One Puritans and Society in the Stour Valley; Chapter Two The Puritan Ideology of Mobility; Chapter Three Land Distribution in Colonial Ipswich; Chapter Four Town-Founding in Essex County: The Communities around Ipswich; Epilogue: The Future of Corporatism and the Ideology of Mobility in America; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

About the author

Scott McDermott received his Ph.D. in 2014 from Saint Louis University. He is Assistant Professor of History at Albany State University in Georgia.

Product details

• Authors: Scott McDermott
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781785274725
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-472-5
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Anthem Intercultural Transfer Studies; Anthem Intercultural Transfer
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous