The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth-Century New England

Edmund Sears Morgan

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UPC:
9780061312274
Maximum Purchase:
3 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1966-12-21
Release Date:
1966-01-01
Author:
Edmund S. Morgan
Language:
english
Edition:
Revised & enlarged
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The Puritans came to New England not merely to save their souls but to establish a visible kingdom of God, a society where outward conduct would be according to God's laws. This book discusses the desire of the Puritans to be socially virtuous and their wish to force social virtue upon others.