From Puritan to Yankee [electronic resource] : character and the social order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 / Richard L. Bushman.

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...

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