{"product_id":"providence-island-16301641-the-other-puritan-colony-volume-0-9780521558358","title":"Providence Island  16301641: The Other Puritan Colony (Volume 0)","description":"\u003cp\u003eProvidence 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 colonys 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 colonys economy could not thrive. This study of Providence Island reveals the remarkable similarities in many basic institutions among the early colonial regions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648015097909,"sku":"ByrdShop_0521558352","price":36.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780521558358.jpg?v=1781706494","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/providence-island-16301641-the-other-puritan-colony-volume-0-9780521558358","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}