The Founding of New England

ISBN-13: 9788028359584 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str.

James Truslow Adams

Opis

This Pulitzer Prize awarded history interrogates the discovery and first settlement of the region; the genesis of the religious and political ideas which there took root and flourished; the geographic and other factors which shaped its economic development; the beginnings of that English overseas empire, of which it formed a part; and the early formulation of thought-on both sides of the Atlantic-regarding imperial problems. Contents: - The American Background - Staking Out Claims - The Race for Empire - Some Aspects of Puritanism - The First Permanent Settlement - New England and the Great Migration - An English Opposition Becomes a New England Oligarchy - The Growth of a Frontier - Attempts to Unify New England - Cross-Currents in the Confederacy - The Defeat of the Theocracy - The Theory of Empire - The Reassertion of Imperial Control - The Inevitable Conflict - Loss of the Massachusetts Charter - An Experiment in Administration - The New Order