9780393972726-0393972720-Creating the Commonwealth

Creating the Commonwealth

ISBN-13: 9780393972726
ISBN-10: 0393972720
Author: Stephen Innes
Publication date: 1998
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback 200 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780393972726
ISBN-10: 0393972720
Author: Stephen Innes
Publication date: 1998
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback 200 pages

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Creating the Commonwealth (ISBN-13: 9780393972726 and ISBN-10: 0393972720), written by authors Stephen Innes, was published by WW Norton & Co in 1998. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Creating the Commonwealth (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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This ambitious history offers a sweeping reinterpretation of America's cultural roots in the colonial past.

Marshaling rich new evidence, Innes focuses on enterprise in early New England and its relation to the prevailing culture of Puritanism. He finds in our beginnings at Massachusetts Bay a fierce devotion to God that fed a social commitment to engage the world and prosper. The result was a thriving capitalism and a diminishing devotion which alarmed Puritan leaders in the late seventeenth century. While telling the story of Massachusetts Bay's transformation from a resource-poor perch on the continent to an active international economy, Innes supplies wonderful detail on early New England's ironworks, fisheries, shipyards, and the "Scums and dreggs" who provided the labor for Puritan enterprise.
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