For God, King, and People
Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4154754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ken Macmillan (University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 150-150 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jay040 |
| OpenAlex | W2804373173 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Alexander B. Haskell argues for the interrelationship of sovereignty and providence in the rise of a “planter commonwealth” in early colonial Virginia (p. 209). Challenging the notion that Virginia was primarily an entrepreneurial endeavour, especially compared to religious colonies such as Massachusetts, Haskell demonstrates that proponents, sponsors, and critics of colonization, both in London and Virginia, linked English expansion into the Atlantic world with a deliberate effort to fulfill the dictates of civic and Christian humanism. These dictates were to create an independent, virtuous commonwealth founded on moral philosophy, secular participation, and divine inspiration located in scripture. However, purposeful “colonial commonwealth formation” was impeded by reluctant monarchs and created tensions between the metropole, which by the mid-seventeenth century came to see colonies merely as provinces of the English commonwealth, and Virginia, which styled itself as a separate polity with its own authority and legislature. Furthermore, to Haskell, state formation and empire building in early modern England were the result, rather than the cause, of Virginia's forging of commonwealth—an interesting corrective to a body of scholarship that tends argue for the reverse
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Global Citizens
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |