Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Ordahl Karen Kupperman

Providence Island, 1630 1641

The Other Puritan Colony

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the failure of Providence Island, set up by English puritans in 1630 and extinct by 1641.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9780521558358
• ISBN-10: 0521558352
• Artikelnr.: 22069839

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps
Preface
Author's note
1. The Providence Island company and its colony: the program
2. Founding a colony on Providence Island
3. Contested authority: the governorship of Captain Philip Bell
4. Frustrated hopes for economic development
5. Land and society: the middling planters
6. Servants into slaves
7. Military requirements and the people's response
8. The turbulent religious life of Providence Island
9. Governing puritan privateers: the governorships of Robert Hunt and Nathaniel Butler
10. The business history of the Providence Island company
11. The end and persistence of Providence Island
Appendixes
Biographical essay
Index.