The Puritan in Holland, England, and America, in Two Volumes: An Introduction to American History

lv, 509; xx, 588 pp. Two volume set. Grey cloth boards, top page ridges gilt. VOLUME I CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; The Netherlands Before the War with Spain: The Country and Its People, Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, and Art; The Netherlands Before the War with Spain: The Guilds, the Towns, the State, Education, Religion, and Morals; Revolution in the Netherlands (1555-1574); Revolution in the Netherlands: Independence Declared--Assassination of William of Orange--Religious Toleration Established, 1574-1585; England Before Elizabeth; Elizabethan England: Private Life, Education, Religion, and Morals; Elizabethan England: Public Life--Administration of Justice--Trade--Treatment of Ireland--Piracy; English Puritanism: The Jesuits and the Puritans, 1558-1585; English Puritanism: Queen Elizabeth and the Puritans, 1558-1585; English Puritanism: Influence from the Netherlands, 1558-1585. VOLUME II CONTENTS: The Scottish Kirk and Its Influence on English and American Puritanism: Plots of the Catholics against Elizabeth; The English in the Netherlands, 1585-1588; The Invincible Armada; England after the Armada: The Development of a National Literature; England after the Armada: Development of Puritanism--Calvinistic Theory--The Jewish Sabbath--Civil Liberty Under Elizabeth, 1588-1603; The Brownists, or Separatists, the Baptists, and the Quakers; King James and the Puritans: The Pilgrim Fathers; War in the Netherlands, 1588-1609: Truce with Spain; War Concluded in the Netherlands, 1609-1648: The Doctrine of Nationality as Opposed to States' Rights Settled; The Netherland Republic; The Netherland Republic and the English Commonwealth; The Netherland Republic and the United States: Debt of America to the Netherlands; The Scotch-Irish, the Puritans of the South: Conclusion.