The Making of an American Thinking Class —— Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts

----- 美国思想阶层的形成：清教徒马萨诸塞州的知识分子和知识分子

ISBN: 9780195113525 出版年：1997 页码：293 Staloff, Darren Oxford University Press

A radical new interpretation of the political and intellectual history of Puritan Massachusetts, The Making of an American Thinking Class envisions the Bay colony as a seventeenth century one-party state, where congregations served as ideological 'cells' and authority was restricted to an educated elite of ministers and magistrates. From there Staloff offers a broadened conception of the interstices of political, social, and intellectual authority in Puritan Massachusetts and beyond, arguing that ideologies, as well as ideological politics, are produced by self-conscious, and often class-conscious, thinkers.