Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction
6. 1: Scope and Method 1
7. 2: The Exceptional Encounter 8
8. 3: On Native Grounds: North American Treaty- Making (ca. 1609– 1721) 15
9. PART I Puritan Enlightenment: Via Dolorosa
10. Prologue 31
11. 4: William Bradford: Th e Diary (1620– 21), the History (Of Plymouth Plantation), and the Hebrew Studies 35
12. 5: John Winthrop: From Journal to History 50
13. 6: Anne Bradstreet: Th e World Elsewhere 67
14. 7: Cotton Mather’s Magnalia 79
15. Interchapter 1. Covenant Chain Treaty- Making and Franklin’s Folios 102
16. PART II Secular Enlightenment: The Importance of Failure
17. 8: Franklin’s Autobiography: Composition as Explanation 127
18. 9: The Education of Thomas Jefferson 150
19. Interchapter 2. The End of Kaswentha: A Brief History 166
20. PART III Truth and Method
21. 10: The Arbella Sermon: A Case Study 181
22. 11: The American Scholar in the Twenty- first Century 200
23. Acknowledgments 219
24. Notes 221
25. Index 257