| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.1

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Book Review

John Clarke and His Legacies: Religion and Law in Colonial Rhode Island, 1638–1750. By Sydney V. James; ed. by Theodore Dwight Bozeman. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. xiv, 202 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-271-01849-6.)

The history of Puritan New England continuously attracts able historians. To this burgeoning field the late Sydney V. James has added a new and important study of Doctor John Clarke, 1609–1676, a radical Puritan whose life "took him through some of the great scenes of the seventeenth century": he was among the founders of Rhode Island, went back to England during the Puritan revolution, became there a Fifth Monarchist, and later returned to New England. Accordingly, as James's impressive study shows, "Clarke's was not provincial life." James being unable to bring this study to publication before his death, his colleague at the University of Iowa, Theodore Dwight Bozeman, edited his manuscript and, by overseeing its successful publication, paid a tribute to his friend. . . .

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