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Article: Agents of Wrath, Sowers of Discord: Authority and Dissent in Puritan Massachusetts, 1630-1655.(Book review)
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- December 1, 2006
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Agents of Wrath, Sowers of Discord: Authority and Dissent in Puritan Massachusetts, 1630-1655. By Timothy L. Wood. Studies in American Popular History and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2006. x + 198 pp. $70.00 cloth.
Agents of Wrath studies the relationship between religious and political authority and dissent in early Massachusetts through the ministers George Philips, Roger Williams, Henry Dunster, and John Cotton and his sometimes allies Henry Vane and Anne Hutchinson. Wood never really explains why he chose these six--he exaggerates to say that Dunster and Philips have been "omitted" from the scholarly literature, and Cotton is certainly not ...