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Settling the good land : governance and promotion in John Winthrop's New England (1620-1650) /

"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 inn...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Delahaye, Agnès (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Series:Early American history series ; 11.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Beginnings of English Settlement
  • Plymouth Colony and the Birth of Settler Literature
  • Organizing Settlement: The Massachusetts Bay Company
  • John Winthrop's Decision for America
  • Managing New England
  • Expansion and Violence in Early New England
  • Liberty.