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Indlæser... The Foundations of American Nationalityaf Evarts Boutell Greene
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Excerpt from The Foundations of American NationalityThe authors hope that this Short History Of the American People may serve the purposes of two classes Of readers. They have aimed, in the first instance, to provide for college undergraduates pursuing an introductory course in American history, a general manual which will embody, in some meas ure at least, the enlarged knowledge and the new points of view made possible by the results of research in recent years. They believe also that this history will meet the requirements Of the general reader who desires a comprehensive View Of the subject within reasonable compass. For the student and the general reader alike, it is hoped that the bibliographical notes may point the way to more extended studies.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. No library descriptions found. |
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Starts with the record of European enterprises on American soil, with the transfer of social habits and ideals, primarily but not entirely English, to American conditions.[1] Concedes that Paine in Common Sense, noted that "America is the child not of England only but of Europe", and that there were aboriginals and other European powers. In 1574, there were over 200 Spanish towns, with 250,000 inhabitants "ruling over perhaps five millions of civilized or partly civilized Indians {?}, a large proportion of whom were practically serfs. [2]
Understand England of 1606. Ireland was the only foreign dependency and Scotland was a separate Kingdom. Only 5 million people, yet they felt overcrowded [2], particularly by Protestant immigrants driven from the Continent by the intolerance of Philip II [3].
With a flowing accessible writing style, powers through the many colonial failures (Drake, Raleigh, Guiana, Harcourt, Hyde, Pym, Heath, Gorges, Acadia), the Virginia pioneers (1606 Hakluyt, Gilbert, Popham, Puritans, Winthrop, John Smith, Newport, Jamestown, Sandys, the importance of tobacco), the Chesapeake Colonies (1632 Baltimore, Catholicism/tolerance, Susquehannocks, Claiborne, indentured servant class, Warwick, Cavaliers taking refuge [75], 1660 Restoration, Negroes, Wood, Byrd, Berkley, Nathaniel Bacon - Rebellion, 80,000 population), New England Pioneers (Fernando Gorges' charter, 17th c Puritanism, Biblical Christianity, Calvinism, Pilgrims, Mayflower, Plymouth, Bradford, Massachusetts Bay Co. Charter 1629, Winthrop, Cotton, Harvard). ...