Overview
- Explores the epistolary network of Rev. Benjamin Colman
- Reveals how British imperialism formed Dissenting Interest
- Presents the Protestant Dissent as a transatlantic story
Part of the book series: Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World (CTAW)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book tells the story of the Rev. Benjamin Colman (1673-1747), one of eighteenth-century America’s most influential ministers, and his transatlantic social world of letters. Exploring his epistolary network reveals how imperial culture diffused through the British Atlantic and formed the Dissenting Interest in America, England, and Scotland. Traveling to and living in England between 1695-1699, Colman forged enduring connections with English Dissenters that would animate and define his ministry for nearly a half century. The chapters reassemble Colman’s epistolary web to illuminate the Dissenting Interest’s broad range of activities through the circulation of Dissenting histories, libraries, missionaries, revival news, and provincial defenses of religious liberty. This book argues that over the course of Colman’s life the Dissenting Interest integrated, extended, and ultimately detached, presenting the history of Protestant Dissent as fundamentally a transatlantic story shaped by the provincial edges of the British Empire.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
William R. Smith is Associate Director of the Helmerich Center for American Research at Gilcrease Museum and Co-Director of the Museum Science and Management graduate program at the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. Specializing in the history of eighteenth-century North America and Atlantic studies, he has taught courses in American religious history and archival studies at the University of Notre Dame, Oklahoma State University, and the University of Tulsa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Benjamin Colman’s Epistolary World, 1688-1755
Book Subtitle: Networking in the Dissenting Atlantic
Authors: William R. Smith
Series Title: Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96670-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96669-0Published: 03 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96672-0Published: 04 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96670-6Published: 02 June 2022
Series ISSN: 2634-5838
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 284
Number of Illustrations: 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: US History, History of Britain and Ireland, History, general, History of Religion