Settling the good land : governance and promotion in John Winthrop's New England (1620-1650) / by Agnès Delahaye.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delahaye, Agnès, author.

Series:

Early American history series ; Volume 11.

Early American History Series ; Volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Puritans--Massachusetts--History--17th century.

Puritans.

Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Massachusetts.

Massachusetts--Politics and government--1620-1691.

New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

New England.

Massachusetts Bay Company--History.

Massachusetts Bay Company.

Winthrop, John, 1588-1649.

Winthrop, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Summary:

Settling the Good Land: Governance and Promotion in John Winthrop’s New England (1620-1650) is the first institutional history of the Massachusetts Bay Company, cornerstone of early modern English colonisation in North America. Agnès Delahaye analyses settlement as a form of colonial innovation, to reveal the political significance of early New England sources, above and beyond religion. John Winthrop was not just a Puritan, but a settler governor who wrote the history of the expansion of his company as a record of successful and enduring policy. Delahaye argues that settlement, as the action and the experience of appropriating the land, is key to understanding the role played by Winthrop’s writings in American historiography, before independence and in our times.

Contents:

The Beginnings of English Settlement

Plymouth Colony and the Birth of Settler Literature

Organizing Settlement: The Massachusetts Bay Company

John Winthrop's Decision for America

Managing New England

Expansion and Violence in Early New England

Liberty.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-43521-2

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004435216 DOI