This early work by Charles McLean Andrews was originally published in
1904 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory
biography. 'Colonial Self-Government, 1652-1689' is a history of the
politics and administration during the American colonial period. Charles
McLean Andrews was born on February 22, 1863 in Connecticut, America.
Andrews attended Trinity College in Connecticut in 1884 where he
received his A.B., and following this he obtained his Ph.D. from Johns
Hopkins University in 1889. He was a professor at Bryn Mawr College
(1889-1907) and Johns Hopkins University (1907-1910) before going to
Yale University. He was the Farnam Professor of American History at Yale
from 1910 to his retirement in 1931. Andrews was one of the most
distinguished American historians of his time and widely recognised as a
leading authority on American colonial history. He is especially known
as a leader of the 'Imperial school' of historians who studied, and
generally praised, the British Empire of the 18th century.