The Science of the Soul challenges long-standing notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment. Sarah Rivett demonstrates that, instead,

Science of the Soul in Colonial New England

Science of the Soul in Colonial New England

The impact of the theater on colonial culture is approached in this study from the viewpoint of the historian rather than the dramatist. From the faded prints o

With the arrival of European explorers and settlers during the seventeenth century, Native American ways of life and the environment itself underwent radical al