| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4 | The History Cooperative

Thomas S. Kidd. The Protestant Interest: New England after Puritanism. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 212. $40.00.
Happily, the title of this short book by Thomas S. Kidd identifies its guiding concept, while the subtitle indicates the problem it addresses. The author's thesis is that "the political and military necessities after 1689, the sense of participating in an ongoing war for the fate of Christianity with Catholic foes, and the ways of print allowed elite New Englanders to imagine themselves part of an international Protestant community" (p. 2), which, when combined with the settlement of the Glorious Revolution, "provided the foundation upon which a post-Puritan New English dissenting establishment could be protected" (p. 3). Thus, the argument is explicitly linked to major themes in the New British History and fits well with recent perspectives on transatlantic history during the eighteenth century.	1
Kidd is obviously on the right track. Interpreting the religious and intellectual history of provincial New England in isolation is clearly untenable. The approach here is essential. But the question remains whether the work is sufficient as either a description of New England's religious life or its Atlantic context. The argument is clear and the evidence apt, but the work is often repetitive, suggesting that it would have made a superb article rather than a decent book. Nonetheless, it remains worth careful reading.	. . .

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