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\nPublication Number 16  \nSERVICE CENTER FOR TEACHERS OF HISTORYA Service of the American Historical Association  \nTHE MACMILLAN COMPANY  \n60 Fifth Avenue,New York  \nомовяушшазыаамюом8NOA 1591O8d OL 30w eV S83AC   XVi O09  3-LSW1dSNO35n8ISK0ONiSN5客是N9AVa 8ENS262Z记L∠85BSocroc‘1V6so1вывиуы-вмаопоманоивввоиоамоваш овиннзуаззАОЭ ВМУСоой влШЗаазЭШо мщмемуши свшзюаышуувакш8C7X-1SV78бярЮєоАюб «ц Аувяюроц здшод ваь  \nNEW  \n# INTERPRETATIONSOF AMERICANCOLONIAL HISTORY\n\nSecond Edition  \nBy LOUIS B.WRIGHTFolger Shakespeare Library  \nA Publication of the American Historical Association'sSERVICE CENTER FOR TEACHERS OF HISTORY400 A Street,S.E.,Washington 3,D.C.  \nTHE MACMILLAN COMPANY,NEW YORKCOLLIER-MACMILLAN LIMITED,LONDON  \n①85  \n16  \n◎ THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 1959 AND 1963  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this book may be repro-duced in any form without permission in writing from thepublisher,except by a reviewer who wishes to quote briefpassages in connection with a review written for inclusionin a magazine or newspaper.The American HistoricalAssociation does not adopt official views on any field ofhistoryThe Service Center,following the tradition ofthe Association,does not necessarily agree or disagreewith the views expressed in this book.  \nFirst Printing  \nLibrary of Congress catalog card number:63-9464The Macmillan Company,New YorkCollier-Macmillan Canada,Ltd.,Toronto,OntarioDIVISIONS OF THE CROWELL-COLLIER PUBLISHING COMPANY  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \n# COMMITTEE ON TEACHING OF THEAMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION\n\nJoSEPH R.STRAYER,ChairmanPrinceton University  \nFRANK FREIDELHarvard University  \nBoYD C.SHAFER(ex-oficio)Executive Secretary,American Historical Association  \nSTANLEY J.IDZERDAMichigan State University  \nWILLIAM H.CARTWRIGHTDuke University  \nMrs.EUGENE MEYERWashington,D.C.  \nROBERT R.CooNAlameda High SchoolJefferson County R-1Lakewood,Colorado  \nJIM B.PEARSONUniversity of Texas  \nMiss MARGARETA FAISSLERRoland Park Country School,Baltimore,Maryland  \nWALKER D.WYMANWisconsin State CollegeWhitewater  \n47630  \n# Nev Interpretations ofAmerican Colonial History\n\nBy LOUIS B.WRIGHT  \nSelected Writings,Principally Since World War II  \nThe motivation of much colonial history in the past was patriotic,even chauvinistic,as writers tried to demonstrate that the developmentof the portion of North America that became the United States was theparticular concern of the Almighty and that in this region,by a sort oflaw of nature,freedom flourished with a vigor unknown elsewhere.Froman early period in the seventeenth century,Puritan historians had assertedthat their people were the elect of God,a notion that Englishmen gen-erally held and a view that was easily transmitted to later generations.  \nOur early historians were nearly all convinced that this land offreedom had special virtues reserved to it and enjoyed the particularfavor of the Deity.The very title of Edward Johnson's history of PuritanNew England,The Wonder-Working Providence of Sion's Saviour(1654),is indicative of a point of view that was to persist.Later histor-ians,it is true,expressed the idea of American superiority in moresophisticated terms,but even George Bancroft,the author of the mostimportant history of the country up to its time,A History of the UnitedStates(1834-74),interpreted the development of the colonies into anation as the unique experience of a peculiar people who from the begin-ning were aware of their destiny to shake off the tyrannies of the OldWorld and to establish a nation dedicated to liberty.  \nBancroft's concept,which was not exclusively his,required one toview the colonial experience as merely a prelude to the Declaration ofIndependence in 1776 or the Constitutional Convention in 1787.Thatmeant that much of our early colonial history was primarily concernedwith political issues interpreted from the vantage 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