The Atlantic imperial constitution
Subtitle: center and periphery in the English Atlantic world
By: Ken MacMillan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780230111745
Subjects: Constitutional history; Politics and government; Central-local government relations; HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries; HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; Administration; Colonies; History
Description: "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. In doing so, it engages directly with a very large body of existing scholarship, and offers a new understanding of this relationships by demonstrating how the English central government became involved in the affairs of its Atlantic peripheries in the first few decades of these activities, and the extent to which this involvement helped to define and determine subsequent imperial relations"--