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Index
Cover
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Title Page
Dedication
An Unknown Coast
Contents
Book One - The Vision and the Reality
Part One - A City Upon a Hill: The Puritans of Massachusetts Bay
Chapter 1 - How Orthodoxy Made the Puritans Practical
Chapter 2 - The Sermon as an American Institution
Chapter 3 - Search for a New England Way
Chapter 4 - Puritan Conservatism
Chapter 5 - How Puritans Resisted the Temptation of Utopia
Part Two - The Inward Plantation: The Quakers of Pennsylvania
Chapter 6 - The Quest for Martyrdom
Chapter 7 - Trials of Governing: The Oath
Chapter 8 - Trials of Governing: Pacifism
Chapter 9 - How Quakers Misjudged the Indians
Chapter 10 - The Withdrawal
Chapter 11 - The Curse of Perfectionism
Part Three - Victims of Philanthropy: The Settlers of Georgia
Chapter 12 - The Altruism of an Unheroic Age
Chapter 13 - London Blueprint for Georgia Utopia
Chapter 14 - A Charity Colony
Chapter 15 - Death of a Welfare Project
Chapter 16 - The Perils of Altruism
Part Four - Transplanters: The Virginians
Chapter 17 - English Gentlemen, American Style
Chapter 18 - From Country Squire to Planter Capitalist
Chapter 19 - Government by Gentry
Chapter 20 - A Republic of Neighbors
Chapter 21 - “Practical Godliness”: An Episcopal Church Without Bishops
Chapter 22 - “Practical Godliness”: Toleration Without a Theory
Chapter 23 - Citizens of Virginia
Book Two - Viewpoints and Institutions
Part Five - An American Frame of Mind
Chapter 24 - Wanted: A Philosophy of the Unexpected
Chapter 25 - The Appeal to Self-Evidence
Chapter 26 - Knowledge Comes Naturally
Chapter 27 - The Natural-History Emphasis
Part Six - Educating the Community
Chapter 28 - The Community Enters the University
Chapter 29 - Higher Education in Place of Higher Learning
Chapter 30 - The Ideal of the Undifferentiated Man
Part Seven - The Learned Lose Their Monopolies
Chapter 31 - The Fluidity of Professions
Chapter 32 - The Unspecialized Lawyer
Chapter 33 - The Fusion of Law and Politics
Part Eight - New World Medicine
Chapter 34 - Nature-Healing and Simple Remedies
Chapter 35 - Focus on the Community
Chapter 36 - The General Practitioner
Chapter 37 - Learning from Experience
Part Nine - The Limits of American Science
Chapter 38 - Popular Science: Astronomy for Everybody
Chapter 39 - Naïve Insights and Ingenious Devices: Electricity
Chapter 40 - Backwoods Farming
Book Three - Language and the Printed Word
Part Ten - The New Uniformity
Chapter 41 - An American Accent
Chapter 42 - Quest for a Standard
Chapter 43 - Culture by the Book: The Spelling Fetish
Part Eleven - Culture Without a Capital
Chapter 44 - “Rays Diverging from a Focus”
Chapter 45 - Boston’s “Devout and Useful Books”
Chapter 46 - Manuals for Plantation Living
Chapter 47 - The Way of the Marketplace: Philadelphia
Chapter 48 - Poetry Without Poets
Part Twelve - A Conservative Press
Chapter 49 - The Decline of the Book
Chapter 50 - The Rise of the Newspaper
Chapter 51 - Why Colonial Printed Matter Was Conservative
Chapter 52 - “The Publick Printer”
Book Four - Warfare and Diplomacy
Part Thirteen - A Nation of Minute Men
Chapter 53 - Defensive Warfare and Naïve Diplomacy
Chapter 54 - Colonial Militia and the Myth of Preparedness
Chapter 55 - Home Rule and Colonial “Isolationism”
Chapter 56 - The Unprofessional Soldier
Acknowledgments
Bibliographical Notes
About the Author
Copyright
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