Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America

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Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia, 2 volumes

Puritanism began in the 1530s as a reform movement within the Church of England. Download Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia, 2 volumes from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. It endured into the 18th century. In between, it powerfully influenced the course of political events both in Britain and in the United States. Puritanism shaped the American colonies, particularly New England. It was a key ingredient in literature, from authors as diverse as John Milton and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Although Puritanism as a formal movement has been gone for more than 300 years, its influence continues on the mores and norms of America and Britain.This ambitious work contains nearly 700 entries covering people, events, ideas, and doctrines-the whole of Puritanism. Exhaustive and authoritative, it draws on the work of more than 80 leading scholars in the Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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