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  • Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698

    by Haig Z. Smith ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book explores the role of religion in England's overseas companies and the formation of English governmental identity abroad in the seventeenth century. Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas ... Read more

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    In Their Own Words

    Letters from History

    by The National Archives ...
    Narrated by Arthur Smith, Daniel Mays, David Haig, Indira Varma, Miriam Margolyes, Robert Bathurst ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 21 min

    Bloomsbury presents In Their Own Words: Letters From History, from the National Archives, read by Daniel Mays, Miriam Margolyes, David Haig, Indira Varma, Arthur Smith and Robert BathurstThe way we communicate has changed. Today, many of our interactions are digital, but until recently writing letters was the norm. Drawing from over 100 miles of records held at the UK’s official government archive ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England

    by Nandini Das, João Vicente Melo, Lauren Working, Haig Smith ...
    Series series Connected Histories in the Early Modern World
    What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What happened when individuals moved between languages, countries, religions, and spaces? Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility analyses a selection of terms that were central to the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and transculturality ... Read more

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    Series series The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures
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