Religion and governance in England's emerging colonial empire, 1601-1698 / Haig Z. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Haig Z., author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New transculturalisms, 1400-1800

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonial companies--England--History--17th century.

Colonial companies.

Colonies.

Administration.

History.

Religion.

England--Colonies--History--17th century.

England.

England--Colonies--Religion.

England--Colonies--Administration--History--17th century.

Colonies--Administration.

Colonies--Religion.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 292 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

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--back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. `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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-281) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

3030701336

9783030701338

9783030701307

3030701301

OCLC:

1235416753

Publisher Number:

99990588110