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

Haig Z Smith is a Research Associate on the ERC-funded TIDE project (Travel, Transculturality and Identity in Early Modern England, 1550-1700) at the University of Oxford. He has previously published on a number of topics relating to religion and English overseas expansion in the early modern period.

1. Introduction: Introduction: 'A Just Government': Empire, Religion, Chaplains and the Corporation .- 2. The Virginia Company and the Foundations of Religious Governance in English Commercial Expansion .- 3.  The Plymouth Company and Massachusetts Bay Company (1622-1639): Establishing Theocratic Corporate Governance .- 4. Apostasy and Debauchery (1601-1660): Behaviour, Passive Evangelism and the East India and Levant Company Chaplains .- 5. The Massachusetts Bay Company and New England Company (1640-1684): Exportation, Revaluation and the Demise of Corporate Theocratic Governance .- 6. The East India Company (1661-1698): Territorial Acquisition and the 'Amsterdam of Liberty' .- 7. Conclusion .- 8. Bibliography.