E. Digby Baltzell

Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on the biographies of some three hundred people in each city, this book shows how such distinguished Boston families as the Adamses, Cabots, Lowells, and Peabodys have produced many generations of men and women who have made major contributions to the intellectual, educational, and political life of their state and nation. At the same time, comparable Philadelphia families such as the Biddles, Cadwaladers, Ingersolls, and Drexels have contributed far fewer leaders to their state and nation. From the days of Benjamin Franklin and Stephen Girard down to the present, what leadership there has been in Philadelphia has largely been provided by self-made men, often, like Franklin, born outside Pennsylvania.

Baltzell traces the differences in class authority and leadership in these two cites to the contrasting values of the Puritan founders of the Bay Colony and the Quaker founders of the City of Brotherly Love. While Puritans placed great value on the "calling" or devotion to one's chosen vocation, Quakers have always placed more emphasis on being a good person than on being a good judge or statesman. Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia presents a provocative view of two contrasting upper classes and also reflects the author's larger concern with the conflicting values of hierarchy and egalitarianism in American history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 585
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351495332
• Artikelnr.: 48959422

Autorenporträt

E. Digby Baltzell

Inhaltsangabe

One: A Problem Defined
I: Class Authority and Leadership
Two: Privileged and Ruling Classes: A Theory of Class Authority and Leadership
Three: Boston Brahmins and Philadelphia Gentlemen: An Empirical Test
II: Puritan and Quaker Patterns of Culture and Their European Roots
Four: Reformation England: From Brawling Lord to Sober Judge
Five: The Puritan Revolution and the Rise of Quakerism
Six: Puritan and Quaker Patterns of Culture: The Theology of Culture
III: The Colonial Experience: Comparative History
Seven: The Founding of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
Eight: The Classic Ages of the Two Colonies
Nine: Heresy, Hierarchy, and Higher Education
Ten: Provincial Boston and Cosmopolitan Philadelphia in the Age of Thomas Hutchinson and Benjamin Franklin
IV: The Age of Transition
Eleven: The Great Generation: Founders of the New Nation
Twelve: Philadelphia's Silver Age and Boston's Federalist Family Founders
V: The National Experience: Comparative Institutions
Thirteen: Wealth: The Fertilizer of Family Trees
Fourteen: Education and Leadership
Fifteen: Boston and Philadelphia and the American Mind
Sixteen: Art and Architecture
Seventeen: The Learned Professions: Law, Medicine, and the Church
Eighteen: The Governing of Men: Deference and Defiant Democracy
VI: Two Test Cases
Nineteen: Catholics in Two Cultures
Twenty: Philadelphia Orthodox Quakerism: A Deviant Case Suggests a Rule