America - The Covenant Nation - A Christian Perspective - Volume 1: From America's Foundations in the Early 1600s To the Great Depression of the 1930s : Miles H Hodges : 9781737641384 : 1737641380 : 25 Oct 2021 : This two-volume American history represents simply a restructuring (plus some new material) of an earlier three-volume study - making the study better suited as text for a two-semester college course. This particular volume begins with the period in the early 1600s when two very different English societies were established in the New World, one in Virginia and one in New England. The Virginia society simply re-created the rigidly class-based feudal society of the times. The New England society was a most unusual democracy of social equals, covenanted to live under God's - not man's - personal rule. These two American social types would find themselves in rather constant struggle ... as Americans found keeping covenant with God to be very difficult because of man's natural te