This book tells the story of the Rev. Benjamin Colman (1673-1747), one of eighteenth-century America’s most influential ministers, and his transatlantic socia

This book tells the story of the Rev. Benjamin Colman (1673-1747), one of eighteenth-century America’s most influential ministers, and his transatlantic socia

Prophecy and millennial speculation are often seen as having played a key role in early European engagements with the new world, from Columbus’s use of the pr

This book examines the operation of itinerant preachers during the period of political and social ferment at the turn of the nineteenth century. It investigates

This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century