Empire, religion and revolution in early Virginia, 1607-1786 /

This book is a chronicle of England's contrasting imperial civil and ecclesiastical policies for its first two colonies, Ireland and Virginia. The settlement of Virginia contrasted sharply from England's experience in Ireland. It was not an undertaking of the state, but a commercial enterp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bell, James B., 1932-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Series:Studies in modern history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of tables
  • Some Useful Dates
  • PART I
  • Prologue
  • 1. England's Early Imperial Interests: Ireland and Virginia
  • 2. The Virginia Company of London and America: Virginia, 1607-1624
  • 3. Virginia and Royal Jurisdiction: Laws, Governors, and Church: 1624-1660
  • PART II
  • 4. Churches and Worship
  • 5. A Social Profile of Virginia's Ministers, 1607-1700
  • 6. Salaries and Discipline of Seventeenth-Century Clergymen
  • 7. Divisions of the English Church in Virginia's Pulpits: Anglicans, Puritans and Nonconformists
  • 8. The Libraries of Two Century Seventeenth-Ministers: Anglican John Goodbourne and Nonconformist Thomas Teackle
  • PART III
  • 9. An Age of New Imperial Policies: Church and State, 1660-1713
  • 10. The Peace Disturbed: Salaries and Controversies, 1696-1777
  • 11. Virginia's Favoured Anglican Church: Faces an Unknown Future: 1776
  • 12. The College of William and Mary: Faces an Unknown Future, 1776
  • Epilogue: A New Age Breaks with the Past
  • Appendix I
  • Clergymen who Arrived in Virginia Between 1607 and 1699
  • Appendix II
  • Clergymen who Arrived in Virginia by Decades Between 1607 and 1699
  • Appendix III
  • Colleges and Universities Attended by Seventeenth-century Virginia Clergymen
  • Appendix IV
  • Virginia Parishes and their Ministers in the Seventeenth-century
  • Bibliography
  • Index.