05604oam 22006974a 450 991096273570332120230314213311.0979-88-908868-6-61-4696-1149-X(CKB)3710000000448668(EBL)4322200(SSID)ssj0001514859(PQKBManifestationID)12580488(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001514859(PQKBWorkID)11480302(PQKB)11647660(OCoLC)643636333(MdBmJHUP)muse48687(MiAaPQ)EBC4322200(Au-PeEL)EBL4322200(CaPaEBR)ebr11149909(CaONFJC)MIL930631(EXLCZ)99371000000044866820780426d1979 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Governors-General the English Army and the definition of the Empire, 1569-1681 /Stephen Saunders Webb1st ed.Chapel Hill :Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press,1979.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE,2016©1979.1 online resource (xxi, 549 pages) illustrationsPublished for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia0-8078-1331-1 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE: English Garrison Government in Britain and America, 1569-1763; PART I: Military Administration in the British Isles, 1569-1676; 1. Garrison Government; The Tudor Prerogative Asserted: The Case of Sir George Carey; The Stuart Prerogative Assailed: The Case of Sir Ferdinando Gorges; Civil War and the Growth of Garrison Government: Three English Cases; The Irish Experience of Garrison Government; Scotland under Military Government, 1650-1654; Garrison Government in the British Isles; 2. Officers and Governors; The Roots of Stuart AbsolutismThe Principles of Military Administration The Case of the Earl of Carlisle, Military Administrator; 3. The Grandee, the Courtier, and the Professional; The Case of Lord Culpeper, Courtier; Herbert Jeffreys: The Professional Soldier Becomes a Royal Governor; Coda: Part I. Militant Monarchy: The Arming of the English Executive, 1569-1678; PART II: Lord of Jamaica: The English Executive in the West Indies, 1654-1681; 4. Design for Empire: Jamaica and the Protectorate; Imperial Conquest and Political Controversy; Planting Garrison Government in JamaicaEdward D'Oyley: Founder, General, and Governor of Jamaica 5. Courtiers and Professionals, Grandees and Aristocrats; A ""Young Lord"" Uses Garrison Government; A Yorkist Courtier in Jamaica; The Western Design in the Restoration; Sir Thomas Lynch and the Evolution of the Imperial Constitution; The Vagaries of Lord Vaughan; 6. Absolutism versus Autonomy, 1678-1681; The Epitome of Garrison Government: 1678; Plots and Plans: The Privy Council Debates the Imperial Polity, 1679; The Military Prerogative in Jamaican Practice and Imperial Politics, 1679-1680The Exclusion Crisis and the Imperial Constitution, 1680-1681 Coda: Part II. From Conquest to Constitution: Garrison Government in Jamaica, 1655-1681; PART III: Coercion and Constitution: The Old Dominion and the Definition of English Empire in North America, 1676-1683; 7. The Imposition of Royal Government on Virginia, 1676-1678; Rebellion and Reaction; Francis Moryson: From Royalism to Imperialism; Agency and Charter, Proprietorship and Empire; Autonomy Ended; Imperial Force; Berkeley's Resistance; The Assembly Attacked; Protection and Obedience: Garrison Government and Social StabilityArms and Authority 8. The Reluctant Dragon: Thomas Culpeper and the Constitution of the Empire; Court and Country in Virginia; Imperial Impositions on Virginia's Constitution; The Moderation of Thomas, Lord Culpeper; The Politics of Garrison Government; Lord Culpeper and the Imperial Constitution, 1680-1681; Country Rebellion; Governor-General Culpeper Cashiered; Coda: Part III. Garrison Government Comes to the Old Dominion, 1676-1683; CONCLUSION: Garrison Government: The English Empire to 1681; The First Stage of Empire, 1569-1641; The Interregnum: Sword Rule and Military Governors; The Restoration Empire, 1660-1681In this remarkable revisionist study, Webb shows that English imperial policy was shaped by a powerful and sustained militaristic, autocratic tradition that openly defined English empire as the imposition of state control by force on dependent people.Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VirginiaGovernors generalGreat BritainMilitary government of dependenciesGreat BritainColoniesHistory17th centuryGreat BritainColoniesHistory16th centuryGreat BritainColoniesAdministrationGovernors generalMilitary government of dependencies.325/.31/0941Webb Stephen Saunders1937-790537Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910962735703321The Governors-General4458357UNINA