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The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century
The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century
The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century
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In The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, as well as successor The New England Mind: From Colony to Province, Perry Miller asserts a single intellectual history for America that could be traced to the Puritan belief system.

“A fascinating and indispensable book.”―Saturday Review

“This classic work towers over the great mass of subsequent scholarship, and remains after forty years our single best work on American Puritanism… For many years to come every serious student of American Puritanism will still have to begin by reading The New England Mind.”―James Hoopes

“A magnificent book, the most illuminating and convincing interpretation of Puritanism that I know and a model example of intellectual historiography. Miller seems to possess a rare combination of gifts and acquired intellectual virtues―disciplined faithfulness to sources, philosophical insight and outlook, creative imagination.”―H. Richard Niebuhr

“The New England Mind is an authoritative description of Puritanism, the most subtle and most fully coherent intellectual system which has ever functioned as the official code of an American regional society… The book is the best single illustration of what is meant by ‘the history of ideas’ as a method of dealing with American materials.”―Henry Nash Smith―Print ed.
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Release dateJun 25, 2020
ISBN9781839745478
The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century
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Perry Miller

Perry Miller is a physician with a PhD in computer science. For many years, he was a Professor of Anesthesiology at Yale School of Medicine and director of Yale's Center for Medical Informatics, exploring the creative use of computers in medicine. He has always enjoyed writing but until recently only published articles and books about research in computers and medicine. He is particularly excited to be writing fiction and hopes that he brings a strong feeling of authenticity to the merging of these two fields. He and his wife live in the Boston area, close to their children and grandchildren.

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