Settling the Good Land

Governance and Promotion in John Winthrop's New England (1620-1650)
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43139-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Early American History Series

Settling the Good Land: Governance and Promotion in John Winthrop’s New England (1620-1650) is the first institutional history of the Massachusetts Bay Company, cornerstone of early modern English colonisation in North America. Agnès Delahaye analyses settlement as a form of colonial innovation, to reveal the political significance of early New England sources, above and beyond religion. John Winthrop was not just a Puritan, but a settler governor who wrote the history of the expansion of his company as a record of successful and enduring policy. Delahaye argues that settlement, as the action and the experience of appropriating the land, is key to understanding the role played by Winthrop’s writings in American historiography, before independence and in our times.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Delahaye, Agnès

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Agnès Delahaye, Ph. D. (2003), Paris-Sorbonne, is Professor of Anglophone Studies at the Université Lyon II Lumière and a member of Triangle (UMR 5206). She has published articles on New England history and historiography, Atlantic history, business history and settler colonialism.