| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

The Protestant Interest: New England after Puritanism. By Thomas S. Kidd. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xii, 212 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-300-10421-9.)

Thomas S. Kidd examines the wreckage of New England Puritanism after its failed resistance to Stuart imperialism and its awkward adjustment to the imperialistic Glorious Revolution and finds—as have others—a "model of pragmatic and sometimes remarkably enthusiastic taste for imperial cooperation and things British" (p. 3). Unlike some others, however, Kidd bases this not in creeping secularism, Enlightenment rationalism, or a merely provincial adjustment to a New World order, but in a decidedly evangelical definition of "the Protestant interest." For the English (British) Atlantic, this meant a focus on maintaining the Protestant succession against the evil machinations of international Catholicism, represented usually by France and its down east Wabenaki allies, occasionally by Spain, and sometimes even by the Polish inquisition.

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