The title of this book by Perry Miller, a world-famous interpreter of the American past, nearly poses the question it has been his lifelong purpose to answer: What was the underlying aim of the first colonists in coming to America? Miller emphasizes the need for understanding the human sources from which the American mainstream has risen.
Perry Miller Knihy
25. únor 1905 – 9. prosinec 1963
Perry Miller byl americký historik myšlení a profesor na Harvardu, který se specializoval na americký puritanismus. Byl jedním ze zakladatelů oboru amerických studií a jeho přístup k historii se vyznačoval kulturním zkoumáním worldview puritánů, což odlišovalo jeho dílo od předchozích psychologických a ekonomických interpretací. Miller ovlivnil celou generaci historiků a jeho vliv sahá až k uznávaným autorům současné literatury.
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