Based upon original papers presented at a symposium sponsored by the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., in 1957.
Contents
The significance of the seventeenth century / Oscar Handlin -- The moral and legal justifications for dispossessing the Indians / Wilcomb E. Washburn -- Indian cultural adjustment to European civilization / Nancy Oestreich Lurie -- Social origins of some early Americans / Mildred Campbell -- Politics and social structure in Virginia / Bernard Bailyn -- The Anglican parish in Virginia / William H. Seiler -- The church in New England society / Emil Oberholzer, Jr. -- The Anglican Church in restoration colonial policy / Philip S. Haffenden -- Seventeenth-century English historians of America / Richard S. Dunn.
