The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780195354416 (0195354419)
Publish date: December 18th 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition language: English
Staloff’s thesis is that Puritan Massachusetts was run by an alliance of intellectuals (ministers, the producers of culture) and intelligentsia (magistrates, who administered culture through politics). The basis of their shared power he names cultural dominance, which he says is built on four princi...