Shaping the Stuart World 1603-1714: The Atlantic Connection

Abstract

Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: Connecting and Disconnecting with America, Allan I. Macinnes SECTION I. CIVILISING SOCIETY, RECONFIGURING POLITIES 1. Education, Culture and the Scottish Civic Tradition, Arthur Williamson 2. A Man for all Regions-Patrick Copland and Education in the Stuart World, Shona Vance 3. The European Catholic Context of the Revolution of 1688-89: Gallicanism, Innocent XI, and Catholic Opposition, Steve Pincus SECTION II. TRANSFERRING TEXTS AND TRADITIONS 4. Transplanting Revelation, Transferring Meaning: Reading the Apocalypse in Early Modern England, Scotland and New England, Kevin Sharpe 5. "Religion stands on tip-toe": George Herbert, the New England Poets, and the Transfer of Devotional Modes, Helen Wilcox 6. Authority and Interpretation: Cotton Mather's Response to the European Spinozists, Reiner Smolinski SECTION III. THE DUTCH CONNECTION 7. Idealism and Power: The Dutch West India Company in the Brazil Trade (1630-1654), Ernst Pijning 8. A Natural Partnership? Scotland and Zeeland in the Early Seventeenth Century, Esther Mijers 9. Anglo-Dutch Trade in the Seventeenth Century: An Atlantic Partnership?, Wim Klooster SECTION IV. POWER AND SETTLEMENT 10. Richard Ligon and the Theatre of Empire, Jane Stevenson 11. Boston Pays Tribute: Autonomy and Empire in the Atlantic World, 1630-1714, Mark Peterson 12. Foreign Penetration of the Spanish Empire 1660-1714: Sweden, Scotland and England, Chris Storrs Epilogue: Becoming Atlantic, Peter C. Mancall Index