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An illuminating study of America's agricultural society during the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Founding eras

Most Americans fail to appreciate the power of Christian conversion that characterized the eighteenth-century revivals, especially the Great Awakening of the 1740s. Through the stirring rhetoric of the sermons, theological treatises, and correspondence presented in this collection, readers can vicariously participate in the ecstasy as well as in the rage generated by America's first national revival.

In this study, Massachusetts under its second charter serves as a microcosm to illustrate why the colonies at the Revolution sloughed off not only English administration but monarchical culture as well. According Richard Bushman, the change to republicanism cannot be attributed to a single thinker or stain of political thought.

The years from 1690 to 1765 in America have usually been considered a waiting period before the Revolution. Mr. Bushman, in his penetrating study of colonial Connecticut, takes another view. He shows how, during these years, economic ambition and religious ferment profoundly altered the structure of Puritan society, enlarging the bounds of liberty and inspiring resistance to established authority. This is an investigation of the strains that a...

The eminent historian Richard Bushman here reflects on his faith and the history of his religion. By describing his own struggle to find a basis for belief in a skeptical world, Bushman poses the question of how scholars are to write about subjects in which they are personally invested. Does personal commitment make objectivity impossible? Bushman explicitly, and at points confessionally, explains his own commitments and then explores Joseph S...

Microhistory at its best -- illuminating, relevant, and highly readable. Bushman paints a vivid portrait of agrarian life in the Old South... (Her) monograph deserves a wide and attentive audience." -- "History

The eminent historian Richard Bushman here reflects on his faith and the history of his religion. By describing his own struggle to find a basis for belief in a skeptical world, Bushman poses the question of how scholars are to write about subjects in which they are personally invested. Does personal commitment make objectivity impossible? Bushman explicitly, and at points confessionally, explains his own commitments and then explores Joseph S...

Richard L. Bushman, a native of Salt Lake City, is professor of history at the University of Delaware and has previously taught at Harvard, Brigham Young, Brown, and Boston universities. Widely published in both Mormon and non-Mormon journals, he is the winner of the Bancroft and Phi Alpha Theta Prizes for From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1760 and editor of The Great Awakening: Documents on the Reviva...