ISBN: 9780521558358

Providence Island was founded in 1630 at the same time as Massachusetts Bay by English puritans who thought an island off the coast of Nicaragua was far more promising than the cold, rock… Mehr…

Providence Island was founded in 1630 at the same time as Massachusetts Bay by English puritans who thought an island off the coast of Nicaragua was far more promising than the cold, rocky shores of New England. Although they expected theirs to become a model godly society, the settlement never succeeded in building the kind of united and orderly community that the New Englanders created. In fact, they began large-scale use of slaves, and plunged into the privateering that invited the colony's extinction by the Spanish in 1641. As a well-planned and well-financed failure, Providence Island offers historians a standard by which to judge other colonies. By examining the failure of Providence Island, the author illuminates the common characteristics in all the successful English settlements, the key institutions without which men and women would not emigrate and a colony's economy could not thrive. This study of Providence Island reveals the remarkable similarities in many basic institutions among the early colonial regions. New Textbooks>Trade Paperback>World History>The Americas>Cent & S Amer Hist, Cambridge University Press Core >1 >T<

1995, ISBN: 9780521558358

Cambridge University Press, Taschenbuch, Auflage: Revised ed. 412 Seiten, Publiziert: 1995-06-30T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 4 b/w illus. 5 maps, 1.48 kg, Verkaufsrang… Mehr…

Cambridge University Press, Taschenbuch, Auflage: Revised ed. 412 Seiten, Publiziert: 1995-06-30T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 4 b/w illus. 5 maps, 1.48 kg, Verkaufsrang: 1894, Skandinavien, Europa, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, Kategorien, Bücher, Südamerika, USA, Geschichte allgemein, Cambridge University Press, 1995<

1995, ISBN: 9780521558358

Cambridge University Press, Paperback, Auflage: New Ed, 412 Seiten, Publiziert: 1995-06-30T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.67 kg, Verkaufsrang: 924839, World History, History, Subjects,… Mehr…

Cambridge University Press, Paperback, Auflage: New Ed, 412 Seiten, Publiziert: 1995-06-30T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.67 kg, Verkaufsrang: 924839, World History, History, Subjects, Books, Colonial Period, United States, Americas, Colombia, South America, Reference, Historical Study & Educational Resources, Cambridge University Press, 1995<