From Puritan to Yankee

Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765

Richard L. Bushman

    PART ONE: SOCIETY IN 1690

    1. Law and Authority

    2. The Town and the Economy

    PART TWO: LAND, 1690-1740

    3. Proprietors

    4. Outlivers

    5. New Plantations

    6. The Politics of Land

    PART THREE: MONEY, 1710-1750

    7. New Traders

    8. East versus West

    9. Covetousness

    PART FOUR: CHURCHES, 1690-1765

    10. Clerical Authority

    11. Dissent

    12. Awakening

    13. The Church and Experimental Religion

    14. Church and State

    PART FIVE: POLITICS, 1740-1765

    15. New Lights in Politics

    16. A New Social Order

    Appendixes

    Bibliographical Note

    List of Works Cited

    Index

    Illustrations

    Map of Connecticut in 1765

    Map of hereditary Mohegan lands and Wabbaquasset lands

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