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Author Baltzell, E. Digby (Edward Digby), 1915-1996

Title Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia : two Protestant ethics and the spirit of class authority and leadership / E. Digby Baltzell.

Publication Info. New York : Free Press, [1979]
©1979

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  974.4 BAL    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  974.461 BAL    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  974.461 BAL    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  974.461 BALTZELL    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  974.461 B197P    Check Shelf
Description xii, 585 pages ; 25 cm
Contents A problem defined -- Privileged and ruling classes: a theory of class authority and leadership -- Boston Brahmans and Philadelphia gentlemen: an empirical test -- Reformation England: from brawling lord to sober judge -- The Puritan revolution and the rise of Quakerism -- Puritan and Quaker patterns of culture: the theology of culture -- The founding of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania -- The classic ages of the two colonies -- Heresy, hierarchy and higher education -- Provincial Boston and cosmopolitan Philadelphia in the age of Thomas Hutchinson and Benjamin Franklin -- The great generation: founders of the new nation -- Philadelphia's silver age and Boston's federalist family founders -- Wealth: the fertilizer of family trees -- Education and leadership -- Boston and Philadelphia and the American mind -- Art and architecture -- The learned professions: law, medicine, and the Church -- The governing of men: deference and defiant democracy -- Catholics in two cultures -- Philadelphia Orthodox Quakerism: a deviant case suggests a rule.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 541-554.
Note Includes index.
Subject Boston (Mass.) -- Civilization.
Puritans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Civilization.
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
ISBN 0029013208
9780029013205
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