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Tenacious of Their Liberties: The Congregationalists in Colonial Massachusetts

JAMES F. COOPER, Jr.

This study approaches the Puritan experience in church government from the
perspective of both the pew and the pulpit. For the past ten years, James Cooper has
immersed himself in local manuscript church records. These previously untapped
documents provide a fascinating glimpse of lay-clerical relations in colonial
Massachusetts, and reveal that ordinary churchgoers shaped the development of
Congregational practices as much as the clerical and elite personages who for so long
have populated histories of the period. Cooper's new findings both challenge existing
models of church hierarchy and offer a new dimension to our understanding of the
origins of New England democracy.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

James F. Cooper, Jr. is Associate Professor of History at Oklahoma State University.

Religion & Theology

$55.00 (06)
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304 pp.; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-511360-8

Religion in Colonial America

Edited by JON BUTLER

Many people believe that the piety of the Pilgrims typified early American religion.
However, by the 1730s Catholics, Jews, and Africans had joined Native Americans,
Puritans, and numerous other Protestants in the colonies. Jon Butler launches his
narrative with a description of the state of religious affairs in both the Old and New
Worlds. He explores the failure of John Winthrop's goal to achieve Puritan
perfection, the controversy over Anne Hutchinson's tenacious faith, the evangelizing
stamina of ex-slave and Methodist preacher Absalom Jones, and the spiritual
resilience of the Catawba Indians. The meeting of these diverse groups and their
varied use of music, dance, and ritual produced an unprecedented evolution of
religious practice, including the birth of revivals. And through their daily interactions,
these Americans created a living foundation for the First Amendment. After
Independence their active diversity of faiths led Americans to the groundbreaking idea
that government should abandon the use of law to support any religious group and
should instead guarantee free exercise of religion for everyone.

Religion in American Life explores the evolution, character, and dynamics of
organized religion in America from 1500 to the present day. Written by distinguished
religious historians, these books weave together the varying stories that compose the
religious fabric of the United States, from Puritanism to alternative religious practices.
Primary source material coupled with handsome illustrations and lucid text make
these books essential in any exploration of Americas diverse nature. Each book
includes a chronology, suggestions for further reading, and index.

160 pp.; 35 b/w illus; 7-1/2 x 9-1/4; 0-19-511998-3

Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character

ROGER G. KENNEDY

A stunning reconsideration of three giants of American history

This book restores Aaron Burr to his place as a central figure in the founding of the
American Republic. Abolitionist, proto-feminist, friend to such Indian leaders as
Joseph Brant, Burr was personally acquainted with a wider range of Americans, and
of the American continent, than any other Founder except George Washington. He
contested for power with Hamilton and then with Jefferson on a continental scale.
The book does not sentimentalize any of its three protagonists, neither does it
derogate their extraordinary qualities. They were all great men, all flawed, and all three
failed to achieve their full aspirations. But their struggles make for an epic tale.

Written from the perspective of a historian and administrator who, over nearly fifty
years in public life, has served six presidents, this book penetrates into the personal
qualities of its three central figures. In telling the tale of their shifting power
relationships and their antipathies, it reassesses their policies and the consequences of
their successes and failures. Fresh information about the careers of Hamilton and
Burr is derived from newly-discovered sources, and a supporting cast of secondary
figures emerges to give depth and irony to the principal narrative. This is a book for
people who know how political life is lived, and who refuse to be confined within
preconceptions and prejudices until they have weighed all the evidence, to reach their
own conclusions both as to events and character.

This is a controversial book, but not a confrontational one, for it is written with
sympathy for men of high aspirations, who were disappointed in much, but who
succeeded, in all three cases, to a degree not hitherto fully understood.

"Kennedy's style is refreshingly conversational and direct.... Kennedy
succeeds in demonstrating that all three men were flawed giants and that
Burr deserves more credit than most authors have given him. Recommended
for university and large public libraries."--Library Journal

"It's hard to conceive of three more absorbing characters than Thomas
Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and Aaron Burr. Standing alone, each would
have fascinated any age in which he lived. Thrown together by the tempests
of history and personal ambition, they struggled desperately to prevail over
one another, even unto death. Roger Kennedy's book brilliantly illuminates a
trio of passionate actors on the early American stage."--Harry McPherson,
Counsel to President Johnson, and author of A Political Education

"This is a masterful, iconoclastic portrait of three founding fathers with a
surprisingly fresh assessment of Aaron Burr that makes for provocative and
important reading."--Hedrick Smith, author of Rethinking America

"A worthwhile portrait of powerful politicians in early America."--Kirkus
Reviews

"Roger Kennedy comes out of a lengthy political career and writes with the
authority of a man who has walked the corridors of power. In Burr,
Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character he ranges over the career of the
three men and over the history of their era, exploring their behavior and
puzzling out their motives."--Men's Journal

Roger G. Kennedy has served as Director of The National Park Service, as Director
of The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, and as Vice President,
Finance, of the Ford Foundation. He has written nine books, has appeared in his own
series on the Discovery Channel, and was a White House correspondent for NBC.
He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

528 pp.; 36 photos, & 3 maps; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-514055-9

American History

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The Machine in the Garden
Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

Second Edition

LEO MARX

A special anniversary edition of the work that defined American Studies

For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to
define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances, and the way society
and culture both determine these links. The Machine in the Garden fully examines thedifference between the "pastoral" and "progressive" ideals which
characterized early 19th-century American culture, and which ultimately evolved into the basis for much of the environmental and nuclear debates of
contemporary society.

This new edition is appearing in celebration of the 35th anniversary of Marx's classic text. It features a new afterword by the author on the process of writing this
pioneering book, a work that all but founded the discipline now called American
Studies.

Praise for the previous edition:

"An exciting book, exemplifying studies in American culture at their best."--Hennig Cohen, Saturday Review

"The thesis of this impressive book is important, and Professor Marx has found a wealth of material to support it."--American Historical Review

"This is an important contribution to our understanding of some of the enigmas and conflicts at work in the American imagination, particularly in the 19th
century."--Tony Tanner, Encounter

Leo Marx is Professor Emeritus of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

416 pp.; 3 halftones; 5-1/2 x 8-1/4; 0-19-513350-1

0195133501, $35.00 (04), cloth
019513351X, $16.95 (03), paper

A reprint of a classic work of historical scholarship! With a new preface by the author!
Winner of the 1975 National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and the AHA's Beveridge Award!

The Problem of Slavery in the
Age of Revolution, 1770-1823

DAVID BRION DAVIS

David Brion Davis's books on the history of slavery reflect some of the most distinguished and influential thinking on the subject to appear in the past
generation. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, the sequel to Davis's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture and the
second volume of a proposed trilogy, is a truly monumental work of historical scholarship that first appeared in 1975 to critical acclaim both academic and
literary. This reprint of that important work includes a new preface by the author, in which he situates the book's argument within the historiographic debates of
the last two decades.

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University. A former President of the Organization of American Historians, he has won the Pulitzer
Prize, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and the American Historical Association's Beveridge Award. His most recent book is The Boisterous Sea of
Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil War
(Oxford University Press, 1998, with Steven Mintz).

576 pp.; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-512671-8 $24.95

Runaway Slaves
Rebels on the Plantation

JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN and LOREN SCHWENINGER

From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping
panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and ran away from their plantations
whenever they could.

For generations, important aspects about slave life on the plantations of the American South have remained shrouded. Historians thought, for instance, that
slaves were generally pliant and resigned to their roles as human chattel, and that racial violence on the plantation was an aberration. In this precedent setting
book, John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger demonstrate that, contrary to popular belief, significant numbers of slaves did in fact frequently rebel against
their masters and struggled to attain their freedom. By surveying a wealth of
documents, such as planters' records, petitions to county courts and state legislatures, and local newspapers, this book shows how slaves resisted, when, where,
and how they escaped, where they fled, how long they remained in hiding, and how they survived away from the plantation. Of equal importance, it examines the
reactions of the white slaveholding class, revealing how they marshaled considerable effort to prevent runaways, meted out severe punishments, and established
patrols to hunt down escaped slaves.

Reflecting a lifetime of research in African American history, this book provides the key to truly understanding the relationship between slaveholders and the
runaways who challenged the system--illuminating as never before the true nature of the South's "most peculiar institution."

John Hope Franklin is James B. Duke Professor of History, Emeritus, at Duke University. He is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the author
of numerous books, including the epic From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans, which boasts more than three million copies in print. Loren
Schweninger is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

480 pp. 15 halftones; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
$35.00t 0-19-508449-7
April 1999

Otober 2, 2000