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The Atlantic Imperial Constitution

Center and Periphery in the English Atlantic World

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  • © 2011

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  1. Ken MacMillan
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Ken MacMillan
    Pages 1-9

  3. The Crown and the Atlantic Charters

    • Ken MacMillan
    Pages 11-29

  4. Foreign Affairs

    • Ken MacMillan
    Pages 31-57

  5. Emigration and the Shaping of the English Atlantic World

    • Ken MacMillan
    Pages 59-83

  6. Tobacco and the Economy of Empire

    • Ken MacMillan
    Pages 85-111

  7. Petitions and Executive Authority

    • Ken MacMillan
    Pages 113-141

  8. Commissions and Committees for Foreign Plantations

    • Ken MacMillan
    Pages 143-167

  9. Conclusion

    • Ken MacMillan
    Pages 169-176

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 177-250
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Drawing on recent trends in both Atlantic and center-periphery literature, this book examines the relationship between the English crown - monarch, privy council, and ancillary bodies - and its Atlantic colonies under the early Stuart monarchs, James I and Charles I, circa 1603-1642.

About the author

KEN MACMILLAN Associate Professor of History at the University of Calgary, Canada. He is also the author of Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World (2006).

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