The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 examines the ideology that English Purit

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In this lively and provocative study, Geoff Ward puts forward the bold claim that the founding documents of American identity are essentially literary. America

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