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Visionary republic: millennial themes in American thought 1756-1800

Bloch, Ruth H., 1949-

Year: 1985.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I. THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MILLENIAL TRADITION IN COLONIAL AMERICA

1. Millennialism and the origins of Anglo-American radicalism

2. Colonial millennialism on the eve of the revolutionary crisis

PART II. THE RISE AND DECLINE OF MILLENNIALISM IN THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA

3. Whig resistance and apocalyptical Manichaeanism

4. The revolutionary millennialism of the 1770's

5. Visions of progress and ruin in the Critical Period

PART III. THE ESCHATOLOGICAL REVIVAL OF THE 1790'S

6. Exegesis

7. Francophilic millennialism and partisan Republican ideology

8. Biblical millennialism and radical Enlightened utopianism

9. Francophobic reaction and evangelical activism

Notes

Index

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Title:

Visionary republic : millennial themes in American thought 1756-1800 Ruth H. Bloch.

Author:

Bloch, Ruth H., 1949-

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Visionary republic : millennial themes in American thought 1756-1800 Ruth H. Bloch.
Bloch, Ruth H., 1949-
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01332

Subject Headings:

• Millennialism -- United States -- History -- 18th century
• United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Religious aspects
• United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes
• United States -- Church history -- To 1775
• United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century

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