Jacobean gentleman : Sir Edwin Sandys, 1561-1629 / Theodore K. Rabb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rabb, Theodore K., author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legislators--Great Britain--Biography.

Legislators.

Great Britain--History--James I, 1603-1625--Biography.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1625.

Great Britain. Parliament--History--17th century.

Sandys, Edwin, Sir, 1561-1629.

Sandys, Edwin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428 pages).

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Theodore K. Rabb, one of the leading historians of early modern Europe, presents here the first full-scale biography of the influential English parliamentarian, colonizer, and religious thinker Sir Edwin Sandys (1561-1629). Rabb has studied Sandys's life and work for more than thirty years and shows that he played a vital role in the Jacobean Age's two most distinctive achievements: the early development of England's constitutional structure and the overseas expansion that began the British empire. Sandys made his contributions, Rabb demonstrates, in the course of an extraordinarily diverse career. Sandys sat in the House of Commons from the 1580s to the mid-1620s, becoming its elder statesman and most influential voice on economic affairs, constitutional issues, and parliamentary procedure. He was a leader of the Virginia Company and the Bermuda Company, which established and settled these two early English colonies, and was also a director of the East India Company. And in an age beset by religious extremism, Sandys wrote a book on religious toleration that was widely read and discussed throughout Europe. reassessment of parliamentary politics on the eve of the English Civil War. Rabb shows that Sandys helped shape gentry positions, independent of Crown or Court, on major political issues, which in turn gave the House of Commons a new prominence in English affairs. This long-needed work will prompt a reexamination of vital aspects of the constitutional, colonial, and religious history of the Stuart period.Originally published in 1998.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ABBREVIATIONS

PART ONE. Early Years

Chapter I. THE SETTING AND THE MAN

Chapter II. WRITINGS, OUTLOOK, AND PERSONALITY

PART TWO. Parliament

Chapter III. THE "COMMONS-MAN"

Chapter IV. 1604: THE NEW KING AND HIS "FREE SUBJECTS"

Chapter V. "DISSENT IS ALWAYS DISPLEASING": THE SESSIONS OF 1606 AND 1607

Chapter VI. THE GREAT CONTRACT

Chapter VII. "NOT MANY ARGUMENTS, BUT STRONG": THE ADDLED PARLIAMENT

Chapter VIII THE PARLIAMENT OF 1621: HARMONY AND HARD WORK, FEBRUARY TO APRIL

Chapter IX. THE PARLIAMENT OF 1621: DESCENT INTO CONFLICT, MAY TO DECEMBER

Chapter X. THE M.P. VICTORIOUS: BUCKINGHAM AND THE PARLIAMENT OF 1624

Chapter XI. FAREWELL TO PARLIAMENT

PART THREE. Commerce and Colonization

Chapter XII. OVERSEAS VENTURES

Chapter XIII. COLLAPSE IN VIRGINIA

PART FOUR. Jacobean Gentleman

Chapter XIV. THE MEASURE OF THE MAN

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780691629568

0691629560

9780691604299

0691604290

OCLC:

1016657233