For God, king, & people : forging commonwealth bonds in Renaissance Virginia / Alexander B. Haskell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haskell, Alexander B., author.

Contributor:

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and government.

Colonization.

History.

Virginia--Colonization--History--17th century.

Virginia.

Virginia--Politics and government--17th century.

Philosophy, Renaissance.

Providence and government of God--Christianity.

Providence and government of God.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 387 pages ; 25 cm

Other Title:

For God, king, and people

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Contents:

Providence, the Renaissance Atlantic, and law

Conquerors, governors, and chroniclers : the persona of the "captain"

The providential state and the legitimizing fellowship of "company"

Framing a new public : Virginia's commonwealth and the moral case for the planter

Sir William Berkeley, the Hobbists, and the end of Renaissance-era colonization.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781469618029

1469618028

OCLC:

965617602