Religion and Governance in England's Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601-1698 - Couverture rigide

Smith, Haig Z.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3030701301 ISBN 13 : 9783030701307

Editeur : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2022

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Haig Z. Smith is a Research Associate on the ERC-funded TIDE project (Travel, Transculturality and Identity in Early Modern England, 1550-1700) at the University of Oxford, UK. He has previously published on a number of topics relating to religion and English overseas expansion in the early modern period.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3030701301
• ISBN 13: 9783030701307
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 303
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