| Description |
xi, 482 pages : frontispiece, maps, facsimile ; 22 cm |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes. |
| Subject |
New England -- History -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.
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