History of the Founding of New England

James Truslow Adams (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2023
Sharp Ink (Verlag)
978-80-283-5650-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This Pulitzer Prize awarded historical account of the founding of New England is a study of 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.02.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Neuzeit bis 1918
• Schlagworte: Civil War • Columbus • Common sense • Gettysburg • Hamilton • Ken Follett • killers of the flower moon • Lincoln • ron chernow • the lost city of z
• ISBN-10: 80-283-5650-8 / 8028356508
• ISBN-13: 978-80-283-5650-7 / 9788028356507
• Zustand: Neuware