Revolution and empire : English politics and the American colonies in the seventeenth century
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Revolution and empire : English politics and the American colonies in the seventeenth century
（Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie）
Manchester University Press , distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1990
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: hard ISBN 9780719023835
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Seventeenth-century England saw the Puritan upheaval of the 1640s and 1650s and the Glorious Revolution of 1688. These crises often provoked colonial reaction, indirectly by bringing forth new ideas about government. The colonies' existence was a testament to accumulated capital and population and to a widespread desire to employ both for high and mundane ends. The growth of population and production, the rise of new and the decline of old trades were important features of 17th-century American and English history. This book presents a study that brings attention back to a century when the word imperialism had not even been coined, let alone acquired the wealth of meanings it has now. The study covers the North American and West Indian colonies as well as England. Research on American sources concentrated on the main settlements of Massachusetts, Virginia, Barbados and Jamaica, their public records, printed and manuscript correspondence and local and county records. Lesser colonies such as New York, Carolina and the New England fringe settlements they have their own stories to tell. The study firstly rests on the proposition that England's empire was shaped by the course of English politics. Secondly, it argues that although imperial history was marked by tension between colonial resistance and English authority. Finally, the broad view is taken of the politics of empire aims to establish a general framework for understanding seventeenth-century colonial history. Attention has also been paid to the political writings and the "non-colonial" activities of governments and politicians. -- .
Table of Contents
- A survey of the imperial territory and the beginnings of the political empire
- the ordered empire of Charles I, 1625-1642
- the English revolution and the Empire, 1642-1660
- "a time of soe greate uncertaintie" - the colonies during the Interregnum, 1642-1660
- the Restoration in England, 1660-1667
- the Restoration in America
- the politics of management - English government and the Empire, 1667-1679
- routines of state and visions of the promised land - English politicians and America, 1660-1683
- reaction and revolution - the English Empire at the end of the 17th century.
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: pbk ISBN 9780719042096
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In England in the 17th century - the Puritan upheaval of the 1640s and 1650s and the Glorious Revolution of 1688. These crises did much to shape the empire and the colonies, often by provoking colonial reaction, but also indirectly by bringing forth new ideas about government. The colonies' existence was a testament to accumulated capital and population and to a widespread desire to employ both for high and mundane ends. The growth of population and production, the rise of new and the decline of old trades were important features of 17th-century American and English history. This study covers the North American and West Indian colonies as well as England. Research on American sources has concentrated on the main settlements of Massachusetts, Virginia, Barbados and Jamaica, their public records, printed and manuscript correspondence and local and county records. References to lesser colonies such as New York, Carolina and the fringe settlements of New England occur because these smaller settlements have their own stories to tell about the processes of adjustment.
Research on England has emphasized sources used by imperial and colonial historians, but attention has also been paid to the political writings and the "non-colonial" activities of governments and politicians, among the latter concentrating on the Restoration figures of Clarendon, Shaftesbury and Danby. The limitations of this study are discussed in the first chapter which also serves as an introduction to the study and sketches the historical background to 1625. This volume aims to consider both England and the main American settlements, different places where similar developments often occurred at different paces. Some of the chapters alternate between English and American emphases, whilst some are transatlantic in scope.
Table of Contents
- A survey of the imperial territory and the beginnings of the political empire
- the ordered empire of Charles I, 1625-1642
- the English revolution and the Empire, 1642-1660
- "a time of soe greate uncertaintie" - the colonies during the Interregnum, 1642-1660
- the Restoration in England, 1660-1667
- the Restoration in America
- the politics of management - English government and the Empire, 1667-1679
- routines of state and visions of the promised land - English politicians and America, 1660-1683
- reaction and revolution - the English Empire at the end of the 17th century.
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