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The Puritan Tradition in Revolutionary, Federalist, and Whig Political Theory: A Rhetoric of Origins

The Puritan Tradition in Revolutionary, Federalist, and Whig Political Theory: A Rhetoric of Origins

Sheldon, Garrett W.
Hammer, Dean

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Series: Major Concepts in Politics and Political Theory, Book 13

PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 0820438219
ISBN13: 9780820438214
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Jun 1 1998
Pages: 218
Language: English
The Puritan Tradition examines how a Puritan past, historically reconstructed as a founding legend, gave meaning to early American political culture. In tracing the rhetorical invocations of this Puritan legacy, this study lends important insight into how this constructed past helped shape the political thought that underlies revolutionary, Federalist, and Whig political discourse. This emphasis on the changing political uses of this puritan Past is an important departure from scholarship that identifies an enduring Puritan essence that is read forward into American culture. Where such scholarship has often yielded either unpersuasive genealogies or a view of Puritanism as dissolving into irrelevance, The Puritan Tradition demonstrates how a Puritan past continues to play a critical role in American political identity.

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