The Puritan Cosmopolis
The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 13 July 2022
- ISBN 9780197651209
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 150x226x15 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English 220
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Short description:
In The Puritan Cosmopolis, Nan Goodman demonstrates how the Puritans were far from an insular coterie that ignored the larger global community. Drawing on letters, diaries, political pamphlets, poetry, and other cultural materials, The Puritan Cosmopolis demonstrates how the Puritan population increasingly saw themselves as global citizens.
MoreLong description:
The Puritan Cosmopolis traces a sense of kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and literature in late seventeenth-century New England. Nan Goodman argues that these early modern Puritans-connected to the cosmopolis in part through travel, trade, and politics-were also thinking in terms that went beyond feeling affiliated with people in remote places, or what cosmopolitan theorists call "attachment at a distance." In this way Puritan writers and readers were not simply learning about others, but also cultivating an awareness of themselves as ethically related to people all around the world. Such thought experiments originated and advanced through the law, specifically the law of nations, a precursor to international law and an inspiration for much of the imagination and literary expression of cosmopolitanism among the Puritans. The Puritan Cosmopolis shows that by internalizing the legal theories that pertained to the world writ large, the Puritans were able to experiment with concepts of extended obligation, re-conceptualize war, contemplate new ways of cultivating peace, and rewrite the very meaning of Puritan living. Through a detailed consideration of Puritan legal thought, Goodman provides an unexpected link between the Puritans, Jews, and Ottomans in the early modern world and reveals how the Puritan legal and literary past relates to present concerns about globalism and cosmopolitanism.
...with the arrival of Nan Goodman's The Puritan Cosmopolis, no scholar will be able to play the exceptionalist Puritan card without getting laughed out of the room. ... The Puritan Cosmopolis is an ambitious and successful study... Because the law of nations-the conceptual category that frames her study-is not widely known or understood in early American scholarship, Goodman develops the concept at length.
Table of Contents:
Prologue
Chapter 1: The Law of Nations and the Sources of the Cosmopolis
Chapter 2: The Cosmopolitan Covenant
Chapter 3: The Manufactured Millennium
Chapter 4: Evidentiary Cosmopolitanism
Chapter 5: Cosmopolitan Communication and the Discourse of Pietism
Epilogue
