A well-written contribution to the history of the Calverts and the founding of Maryland. Choice 2005 A fine addition to the field... will be useful not only to students of early Maryland but those interested in court politics, English Catholicism, and the development of religious toleration.
Owen Stanwood William and Mary Quarterly 2006 This meticulously researched and well-crafted work ... Read morewill stand as the definitive study on the Lords Baltimore.
Tricia T. Pyne Catholic Historical Review 2006 Krugler's scholarship goes far to correct sectarian assessments of Catholic proprietorships in colonial Newfoundland and Maryland... A well-told tale of Catholic English court politics, impressively researched and cogently argued.
Mary Beth Lamb Religious Studies Review 2005 Anyone interested in the early history of Maryland should make certain to read Krugler's detailed examination of the first three Lords Baltimore and their radical experiment.
Jennifer Bryan Archivum Historicum S.I. 2006 As Krugler reflects the complexity of history and weighs the magnitude of the Calverts' brief triumph, he sets some records straight.
Philip Kopper Washington Times 2005 The whole narrative is adroitly woven around a central theme of opposing polarities of religion and politics, state and church, conformity and dissent.
Michal J. Rozbicki Journal of American History 2006 This book has many virtues, not least as an account of the establishment of the only Catholic colony in colonial America, and the attempt to create a religiously pluralist society in an intolerant world.
Keith Lindley English Historical Review 2006 This valuable book is a study of the first three Lords Baltimore and their role as proprietors of Maryland, the only successful overseas colony developed by English Catholics during the seventeenth century... A highly readable and engrossing story, and Krugler has vividly reconstructed and narrated it... An impressive achievement that sheds much light on the history of both colonial America and seventeenth-century England.
David L. Smith American Historical Review 2005 This book nuances our understanding of the ways in which religious affiliation might affect elite families. It also complicates our understanding of early colonial politics and organization.
Jerome de Groot H-Atlantic, H-Net Reviews 2008 Show Less