History of Founding of New England

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 BackgroundStaking Out ClaimsThe Race for EmpireSome Aspects of PuritanismThe First Permanent SettlementNew England and the Great MigrationAn English Opposition Becomes a New England OligarchyThe Growth of a FrontierAttempts to Unify New EnglandCross-Currents in the ConfederacyThe Defeat of the TheocracyThe Theory of EmpireThe Reassertion of Imperial ControlThe Inevitable ConflictLoss of the Massachusetts CharterAn Experiment in AdministrationThe New Order