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ABOUT THE BOOK
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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Agnès Delahaye, Ph. D. (2003), Paris-Sorbonne, is Professor of Anglophone Studies at the Université Lyon II Lumière and a member of Triangle (UMR 5206). She has published articles on New England history and historiography, Atlantic history, business history and settler colonialism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Front Matter
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Figures
Introduction
Pages: 1–18
The Beginnings of English Settlement
Pages: 19–60
Plymouth Colony and the Birth of Settler Literature
Pages: 61–89
Organizing Settlement: The Massachusetts Bay Company
Pages: 90–120
John Winthrop’s Decision for America
Pages: 121–169
Managing New England
Pages: 170–209
Expansion and Violence in Early New England
Pages: 210–261
Liberty
Pages: 262–309
Conclusion
Pages: 310–314
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Back Matter
Bibliography
Index
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