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Abram Van Engen reviews Baird Tipson's Hartford Puritanism
Bibliography
With few exceptions works listed were published after 1980.
General Works on Early America
Malcolm Gaskill, Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans (2014)
Daniel Richter, Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts (2013)
Alan Taylor, American Colonies: The Settling of North America (2002)
Puritanism: General Studies and English Origins
Theodore Dwight Bozeman, The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638 (2004)
Francis J. Bremer, Puritanism: A Very Short Introduction (2009)
Francis J. Bremer, Lay Empowerment and the Development of Puritanism (2015)
Andrew Cambers, Godly Reading: Print, Manuscript and Puritanism in England, 1580-1720 (2014)0
John Coffey & Paul Lim, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (2008)
John Coffey, Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1588-1689 (2000)
Patrick Collinson, The Religion of Protestants: The Church in English Society, 1559-1625 (1984)
Patrick Collinson, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1967)
Patrick Collinson, Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism (2013)
David Como, Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England (2004)
Christopher Durston and Jacqueline Eales, eds., The Culture of English Puritanism,1560-1700 (1996)
Polly Ha, English Presbyterianism, 1590-1640 (2010)
Christopher Haigh, The Plain Man's Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1640 (2007)
Arnold Hunt, The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and their Audiences, 1590-1640 (2014)
Peter Iver Kaufman, Thinking of the Laity in Late Tudor England (2004)
Peter Lake, The Boxmaker's Revenge: "Orthodoxy," "Heterodoxy," and the Politics of the Parish (2001)
Christopher Marsh, Popular Religion in Sixteenth-Century England (1998)
Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation (2001)
Diarmaid MacCulloch, All Things Made New: The Reformation and Its Legacy (2016)
Anthony Milton, Catholic and Reformed: The Roman and Protestant Churches in English Protestnt Thought, 1600-1640 1995)
Alec Ryrie, Being Protestant in Reformation Britain (2013)
Paul Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Centruy London
John Spurr, English Puritanism, 1603-1689
Nicholas Tyacke, Aspects of English Protestantism, c.1530-1700
Alexandra Walsham, Providence in Early Modern England
Alexandra Walsham, Charitable hatred: Tolerance and intolerance in England, 1500-1700
Tom Webster, Godly Clergy in Early Stuart England: The Caroline Puritan Movement (1997)
Separatists and Pilgrims
Jeremy Bangs, Strangers and Pilgrims, Travellers and Sojourners: Leiden and the Foundations of Plymouth Plantation (2009)
Jeremy Bangs, Pilgrim Edward Winslow:
New England's First International Diplomat: A Documentary Biography (2004)
Stephen Brachlow, The Communion of the Saints: Radical Puritanism and Separateist Ecclesiology (1989)
Nick Bunker, Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History (2010)
Keith L. Sprunger, Dutch Puritanism: A History of English and Scottish Churches of the Netherlands in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 1983)
Murray Tolmie, The Triumph of the Saints: The Separate Churches of London, 1616-1649 (1977)
Natives Societies in New England
Kathleen Bragdon, Native People of Southern New England, 1500-1650 (1996)
Colin Calloway and Neal Salisbury, Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience. (2004)
Julie Fisher and David J. Silverman, Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts: Diplomacy, War, and the Balance of Power in Seventeenth-Century New England and Indian Country (2014)
Andrew Lipman, The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast (2015)
Michael Oberg, Uncas: First of the Mohegans (2003)
Daniel K. Richter, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (2001)
Neal Salisbury, Manitou and Providence (1982)
David J. Silverman, Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community Among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871 (2005)
Alden T. Vaughan, New England Frontier: Puritans and Indians, 1620-1675 (3rd edition, 1995)
Laurie Weinstein-Farson, The Wampanoag (1989)
Pilgrims and Puritans in New England
Emerson W. Baker, A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience (2014)
Francis J. Bremer, The Puritan Experiment: New England Society from Bradford to Edwards (revised edition, 1995)
Francis J. Bremer, John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father (2003)
Francis J. Bremer, Building a New Jerusalem: John Davenport, a Puritan in Three Worlds (2012)
Francis J. Bremer, First Founders: American Puritans and Puritanism in an Atlantic World (2012)
Richard Cogley, John Eliot's Mission to the Indians before King Philip's War (1999)
Michael Colacurcio, Godly Letters: the Literature of the American Puritans (2006)
James F. Cooper, Tenacious of Their Liberties: The Congregationalists in Colonial Massachusetts (1999)
Linford Fisher, Decoding Roger Williams: The Lost Essay of Rhode Island's Founding Father (2014)
Linford Fisher, The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America (2012)
Stephen Foster, The Long Argument: English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England Culture, 1570-1700 (1991)
Judith Graham, Puritan Family Life: The Diary of Samuel Sewall (2000)
David D. Hall, A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England (2011)
David D. Hall, Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England (1989)
David D. Hall, The Faithful Shepherd: A History of the New England Ministry in the Seventeenth Century (1972)
Timothy D. Hall, Anne Hutchinson: Puritan Prophet (2009)
Zachary Hutchins, Inventing Eden: Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England (2014)
Eve LaPlante, American Jezebel (2004)
Meredith Neuman, Jeremiah's Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England (2013)
Mark Peterson, The Price of Redemption: The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England (1997)
Sarah Rivett, The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England (2011)
Baird Tipson, Hartford Puritanism: Thomas Hooker, Samuel Stone, and Their Terrifying God (2015)
Bryce Traister, Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism (2016)
Mark Valeri, Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America (2010)
Abram Van Engen, Sympathetic Puritans: Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England (2015)
Adrian Weimer, Martyrs' Mirror: Persecution and Holiness in Early New England (2011)
David Weir, Early New England: A Covenanted Society (2005)
Michael P. Winship, Godly Republicanism: Puritans, Pilgrims and a City on a Hill (2012)
Michael P. Winship, Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636-1641 (2002)
Michael P. Winship, The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson: Puritans Divided (2005)
Walter W. Woodward, Prospero's America: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676 (2010)
Puritanism in the Time of Britain's 17th Century Wars of Religion
Michael Braddick, God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars (2009)
Francis J. Bremer, Congregational Communion: Clerical Friendship in the Anglo-American Puritan Community, 1610-1692 (1994)
John Coffey, John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution (2006)
Crawford Gribben, John Owen and English Puritanism (2016)
Crawford Gribben, God's Irishmen: Theological Debates in Cromwellian Ireland (2007)
Crawford Gribben, The Irish Puritans: James Ussher and the Reformation of the Church (2014)
Crawford Gribben and Scott Spurlock, eds., Puritans and Catholics in the Trans-Atlantic World 1600-1800 (2015)
Johanna Harris and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, eds., The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680 (2010)
John Morrill, ed., Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution (1990)
Hunter Powell, The Crisis of British Protestantism: Church Power in the Puritan Revolution, 1638-44 (2015)
Blair Worden, God's Instruments: Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell (2013)
Recent Publications
Emerson W. Baker, A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience (2014)
Francis J. Bremer, Lay Empowerment and the Development of Puritanism (2015)
Robert Cushman, "The Cry of a Stone," Edited by Michael R. Paulick. Transcription & Annotation by James W. Baker (2016)
Crawford Gribben and Scott Spurlock, eds., Puritans and Catholics in the Trans-Atlantic World 1600-1800 (2015)
Zachary Hutchins, Inventing Eden: Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England (2014)
Susan Juster, Sacred Violence in Early America (2016)
Rick Kennedy, The First American Evangelical: A Short Life of Cotton Mather (2015)
Heather Miyano Kopelson, Faithful Bodies: Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic (2014)
Hunter Powell, The Crisis of British Protestantism: Church Power in the Puritan Revolution, 1638-44 (2015)
Alec Ryrie and Tom Schwanda, eds., Puritanism and Emotion in the Early Modern World (2016)
Baird Tipson, Hartford Puritanism: Thomas Hooker, Samuel Stone, and Their Terrifying God (2015)
Bryce Traister, Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism (2016)
Abram Van Engen, Sympathetic Puritans: Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England (2015)





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