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Author Smith, Haig Z., author

Title Religion and governance in England's emerging colonial empire, 1601-1698 / Haig Z. Smith
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (XI, 292 pages)
Series New transculturalisms, 1400-1800
New transculturalisms, 1400-1800.
Contents 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.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Colonial companies -- England -- History -- 17th century
Colonial companies
Colonies
Colonies -- Administration
Colonies -- Religion
SUBJECT England -- Colonies -- History -- 17th century
England -- Colonies -- Religion
England -- Colonies -- Administration -- History -- 17th century
Subject England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030701314
303070131X