Can Mert Kökerer

The Legitimacy of Popular Domination: Democracy and Puritan Political Theology in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1691

This dissertation investigates the issue of the legitimacy of the Massachusetts Bay Colony's social order between 1630 and 1691. Based on archival research, it analyzes the Massachusetts puritans' entangled ideational, institutional, and agentic modes of expression throughout the...