English Character and the Fiasco of the Western Design

Pestana, Carla Gardina

doi:10.1353/eam.2007.0021

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“…2; Pestana, The English Atlantic, 1, 5–7. For the “Englishness” of Cromwellian colonial policy, see Pestana, “English Character and the Fiasco of the Western Design,” 1–31; Smith, “The Western Design,” 279–92.…”

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Scots in the English Atlantic from 1603 to 1660: Policy, Patronage, and Subjecthood

Wagner¹

2022

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This article examines the legal and sociopolitical position that Scots held in the English Atlantic world from the union of the crowns in 1603 to the restoration of the Stuart dynasty in 1660. It demonstrates that Scots gained access to colonial opportunities through the royal patronage of James VI and I and Charles I. The policy of those monarchs also largely supported Scottish endeavours in the transatlantic arena: in land ownership, commerce, and colonial leadership. The Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the Commonwealth, and the Protectorate disrupted the colonial opportunities that were opened to Scots in the preceding decades. They lost their access to royal patronage, and the concept of Commonwealth subjecthood displaced the earlier concept of postnati subjecthood. By tracing how concepts of subjecthood developed in this period, the article contextualises the Restoration period when Scots were labelled as aliens in the English Navigation Acts to restrict their access to the English Atlantic.

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Scots in the English Atlantic from 1603 to 1660: Policy, Patronage, and Subjecthood

Wagner¹

2022

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“… 10 As others have long noted, Cromwellian imperial policy emphasized interrupting the flow of Spanish wealth being used to finance the ongoing war against Protestantism: Kupperman, 1988; Pestana, 2005. More recent scholarship has uncovered a host of continuities between the Western Design (long presented as an aberration) and late Stuart colonial policy.…”

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Purchasing Dunkirk: Commerce, Diplomacy, and Absolutist Empire in England and France

Gillis

2023

Renaiss. Q.

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This article considers Louis XIV's purchase of Dunkirk from Charles II in 1662 as a case study in the interwoven histories of monarchy and empire. In France and England, proponents of absolutism sought to broaden definitions of conquest to encompass both diplomacy and commerce. It proved nearly impossible to bring the concept of buying or selling a town into congruence with grand dynastic designs. Analyzing diplomatic correspondence and royal history alongside an array of artistic representations, I contend, underscores the extent to which ideals of kingship collided with imperial and commercial concerns, as early modern states adapted to the realities of an interconnected seventeenth-century world.

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Global Commerce and an Emergent “Empire of Trade”

Deng¹

2019

Political Turmoil: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1623–1660

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English Character and the Fiasco of the Western Design

Cited by 12 publications

References 25 publications

Scots in the English Atlantic from 1603 to 1660: Policy, Patronage, and Subjecthood

Scots in the English Atlantic from 1603 to 1660: Policy, Patronage, and Subjecthood

Purchasing Dunkirk: Commerce, Diplomacy, and Absolutist Empire in England and France

Global Commerce and an Emergent “Empire of Trade”

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