Author:
Bloch, Ruth H., 1949-
Imprint:Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Descriptionxvi, 291 p. : ill. ; 24 m.
Note:Includes index.
Note:Part I. The development of a millennial tradition in Colonial America: -- 1. Millennialism and the origins of Anglo-American radicalism -- 2. Colonial millennialism on the eve of the revolutionary crisis -- Part II. The rise and decline of millennialism in the Revolutionary era: -- 3. Whig resistance and apocalyptical Manichaenism -- 4. The revolutionary millennialism of the 1770's -- 5. Visions of progress and ruin in the Critical Period -- Part III. The eschatological revival of the 1790's: 6. Exegesis -- 7. Francophilic millennialism and partisan Republican ideology -- 8. Biblical millennialism and radical Enlightened utopianism -- 9. Francophobic reaction and evangelical activism.
Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 233-284.
