Religion and Governance in England's Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601-1698
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...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022. |
| Series: | New Transculturalisms, 1400-1800,
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Table of 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. .