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For God, King, and People: Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

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By recovering a in large part forgotten English Renaissance mindset that regarded sovereignty and Providence as being fundamentally entwined, Alexander Haskell reconnects concepts historians had before treated as separate categories and argues that the first English planters in Virginia operated within a deeply providential age reasonably than an era of early up to date entrepreneurialism. These men didn’t merely settle Virginia; they and their London-based sponsors saw this first successful English venture in The united states as an exercise in divinely inspired and approved commonwealth creation. When the realities of Virginia complicated this humanist ideal, growing disillusionment and contention marked debates over the colony.

Rather than just “selling” colonization to the realm, proponents as an alternative needed to conquer profound and recurring doubts about whether God wanted English rule to cross the Atlantic and the process wherein it was once to happen. By contextualizing these debates within a late Renaissance phase in England, Haskell links increasing religious skepticism to the upward push of decidedly secular conceptions of state power. Haskell offers a radical revision of accepted narratives of early up to date state formation, locating it as an outcome, reasonably than as an antecedent, of colonial endeavor.

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