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Protestant Empire : Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World /

Beginning with the role religion played in the lives of believers in West Africa, eastern North America, and western Europe in about 1500, author Carla Gardina Pestana shows how the Protestant Reformation helped to fuel colonial expansion as bitter rivalries prompted a fierce competition for souls....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pestana, Carla Gardina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Religion before English expansion
  • Reformation and the politicization of religious expansion
  • Exporting the religious tensions of the three kingdoms
  • Restoration settlement and the growth of diversity
  • Battling over religious identity in the late seventeenth century
  • Religious encounters and the making of a British Atlantic
  • Revivalism and the growth of evangelical Christianity
  • Revolutionary divisions, continuing bonds
  • Conclusion : the British Atlantic world in perspective.