Transgressing the Bounds

Subversive Enterprises Among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692

By: Louise Breen

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Hardcover | 1 February 2001

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This study offers a new interpretation of the puritan ''Antinomian'' controversy and a skilful analysis of its wider and long term social and cultural significance. Breen argues that the controversy both reflected and fostered larger questions of identity that would persist in puritan New England throughout the seventeenth century: How much room for individualism among them of a more ''cosmopolitan'' nature? How did they respond to those who did not share their celebrated tolerance toward Quakers, Indians, and outside influences in general? Central to Breen''s study is the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massuchusetts, a private military company modelled on the fashionable ''artillery gardens'' of London. Essentially an elite social club, this organization attracted a heterogeneous yet prominent membership whose diversity contrasted with the the social and religious ideals of the cultural majority.

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"Breen has identified a general pattern that is a useful guidepost for reading the actions, decisions, and changing alliances of Bay Colony leadership. In bringing these individuals to our attention, she has provided an illuminating window onto New England as a developing, ratehr than static, or stagnant, colonial area."-- The Journal of Religion "This is a well-researched, nicely written and carefully thought out volume that makes it clear that there is more to be said about the Puritans. Breenis convincing in her argument that some of them were not so different from the rest of American colonists."--The Historian "Breen has identified a general pattern that is a useful guidepost for reading the actions, decisions, and changing alliances of Bay Colony leadership. In bringing these individuals to our attention, she has provided an illuminating window onto New England as a developing, ratehr than static, or stagnant, colonial area."-- The Journal of Religion "...this book is stimulating in its adventurous, wide-ranging speculation. Moreover, it vividly shows once again the fallacy of conceiving of the massachusetts elite as a single 'New England mind.'"--American Historical Review "This is a well-researched, nicely written and carefully thought out volume that makes it clear that there is more to be said about the Puritans. Breenis convincing in her argument that some of them were not so different from the rest of American colonists."--The Historian

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Acknowledgments	p. v
Transgressing the Bounds	p. 2
Introduction	p. 3
A Contest of Cultures in Puritan Massachusetts	p. 17
Honor, Heresy, and the Massachusetts Ordeal of John Underhill	p. 57
Cosmopolitan Puritans in a Provincial Colony	p. 97
Daniel Gookin, King Philip's War, and the Dangers of Intercultural Mediatorship	p. 145
Epilogue and Conclusion	p. 197
Notes	p. 221
Index	p. 283
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