Description
Product ID: | 9783030701338 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | CH |
Series: | New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800 |
Title: | Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698 |
Authors: | Author: Haig Z. Smith |
Page Count: | 292 |
Subjects: | European history, British & Irish history, History, Colonialism and imperialism, History of religion, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Colonialism & imperialism, History of religion, England, British Empire, c 1600 to c 1700 |
Description: | 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. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
Publisher Name: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-01-08 |