The founding of New England : Adams, James Truslow, 1878-1949, author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (original) (raw)

Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

xi pages, 2 leaves, 482 pages : 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

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.n

Pulitzer Prize, History, 1922