Based on lectures Fiske gave in St. Louis in 1887, this history sets the Puritan colonies within a long contest between Roman centralisation and English self-government. Fiske covers the Puritan exodus, the planting of Massachusetts and Connecticut, the New England Confederacy, the theocracy’s quarrels with dissenters and the Crown, and the crisis of the 1680s.
A classic of nineteenth-century American historical writing, elegant and still very readable. Download the free EPUB.