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A war of religion : dissenters, Anglicans, and the American Revolution

Title
A war of religion : dissenters, Anglicans, and the American Revolution / James B. Bell.
ISBN
9780230542976 (hbk. )
0230542972 (hbk. )
Published
Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Physical Description
xxii, 323 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 17, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-315) and index.
Contents
The seeds of discord: an English church established in Boston
Discord enlarged: the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
A handmaiden for episcopacy: John Checkley of Boston
The English origins of a colonial American controversy
Noah Hobart decries Anglican expansion: Thomas Sherlock proposes an American bishop
Jonathan Mayhew fears a bishop and challenges the purpose of the S.P.G.
Pleas for an American bishop in the 1760s: Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Secker and Thomas Bradbury Chandler
A radical response to a bishop: John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Wilkes
The controversy over a bishop in the colonies outside New England
The impact of the First Continental Congress and the local committees of safety
Critics of the Continental Congress and Common Sense: Jonathan Boucher and Charles Inglis
A challenge to radical politics: Samuel Seabury Jr. and Thomas Bradbury Chandler
Quiet and militant patriots
William Knox seeks to extablish an ecclesiastical imperial policy for the American church
The state of the clergy in 1775 and 1783
The English Church, a cause of the American Revolution
Political sentiments of colonial clergymen of the Church of England during the American Revolutionary War,, 1775-83
A summary of the birthplaces, birth years, and colleges attended by colonial American Church of England clergymen, 1775
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