Volume 26, Number 12 · July 19, 1979
The Chosen People
By Edmund S. Morgan
Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763
by Richard Beale Davis
University of Tennessee Press, 3 vols, 1,810 pp., $60.00
The American Jeremiad
by Sacvan Bercovitch
University of Wisconsin Press, 239 pp., $15.00
Southerners have long been irked by the tendency of New Englanders to write American history, especially intellectual history, as the story of New England writ large. Richard Beale Davis has set out to redress the balance. In three large volumes he has compiled the evidence to show that the people of England's southern colonies (Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia) thought, wrote, and prayed at least as much as those in New England, if not more.
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