| Description |
1 online resource (XI, 292 pages). |
| Series |
New transculturalisms, 1400-1800 |
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New transculturalisms, 1400-1800.
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| Access |
Open access GW5XE |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This open access book explores the role of religion in England's overseas companies and the formation of English governmental identity abroad in the seventeenth century. Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas government and various models of religious governance across England's emerging colonial empire. While these approaches to governance varied from company to company, each sought to regulate the behaviour of their personnel, as well as the numerous communities and faiths which fell within their jurisdiction. This book provides a crucial reassessment of the seventeenth-century foundations of British imperial governance. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Introduction: "A Just Government" : Empire, Religion, Chaplains and the Corporation -- 2. The Virginia Company and the Foundations of Religious Governance in English Commercial Expansion -- 3. The Plymouth Company and Massachusetts Bay Company (1622-1639): Establishing Theocratic Corporate Governance -- 4. Apostasy and Debauchery (1601-1660): Behaviour, Passive Evangelism and the East India and Levant Company Chaplains -- 5. The Massachusetts Bay Company and New England Company (1640-1684): Exportation, Revaluation and the Demise of Corporate Theocratic Governance -- 6. The East India Company (1661-1698): Territorial Acquisition and the "Amsterdam of Liberty" -- 7. Conclusion -- 8. Bibliography. . |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Local Note |
Springer Nature Springer Nature Open Access eBooks |
| Subject |
Colonial companies -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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England -- Colonies -- History -- 17th century.
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England -- Colonies -- Religion.
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England -- Colonies -- Administration -- History -- 17th century.
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Colonial companies. (OCoLC)fst00868450
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Colonies. (OCoLC)fst00868456
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Colonies -- Administration. (OCoLC)fst00868457
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Colonies -- Religion.
(OCoLC)fst01352464
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England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
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| Chronological Term |
1600-1699
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: SMITH, HAIG Z. RELIGION AND GOVERNANCE IN ENGLANDS EMERGING COLONIAL EMPIRE, 16011698. [S.l.] : PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2021 3030701336 (OCoLC)1235416753 |
| ISBN |
9783030701314 (electronic book) |
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303070131X (electronic book) |
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9783030701307 |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-3-030-70131-4 doi |
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