02672nam 2200505 450 991081782970332120201105125214.090-04-43521-210.1163/9789004435216(CKB)4100000011044489(OCoLC)1154820180(nllekb)BRILL9789004435216(MiAaPQ)EBC6262286(PPN)250231042(EXLCZ)99410000001104448920201105d2020 uy 0engurun| uuuuatxtrdacontentcrdamediardacarrierSettling the good land governance and promotion in John Winthrop's New England (1620-1650) /by Agnès DelahayeLeiden ;Boston :Brill,[2020]©20201 online resourceEarly American History Series ;Volume 1190-04-43139-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Early American history series ;Volume 11.PuritansMassachusettsHistory17th centuryMassachusettsHistoryColonial period, ca. 1600-1775MassachusettsPolitics and government1620-1691New EnglandHistoryColonial period, ca. 1600-1775PuritansHistory285.90974409032Delahaye Agnès1314208MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817829703321Settling the good land4095399UNINA