Almost universally accepted as the most penetrating analysis of the events leading to 1776, Andrews' classic explores the whole colonial period, as it was viewed on both sides of the Atlantic, beginning with the founding of the Jamestown colony. "No such balanced and masterly review of Colonial conditions and British colonial policy has ever been given to the public." -Samuel Eliot Morison
Almost universally accepted as the most penetrating analysis of the events leading to 1776, Andrews' classic explores the whole colonial period, as it...
First published in 1933, Our Earliest Colonial Settlements describes in clear and engaging prose the origins, development, and transatlantic nature of the seventeenth-century English colonies in Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Maryland. Far ahead of his time in arguing that America's colonial experience could only be understood within the broader history of European colonization, Charles M. Andrews anticipated much of the current scholarship on American colonial history and its place in the Atlantic World. For this edition, Karen Ordahl Kupperman provides a new...
First published in 1933, Our Earliest Colonial Settlements describes in clear and engaging prose the origins, development, and transatlantic na...
