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xii, 412 pages ; 25 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Early Years -- The Setting and the Man -- Writings, outlook, and Personality -- Parliament -- The "Commons-Man" -- 1604: The New King and His "Free Subjects" -- "Dissent Is Always Displeasing": The Sessions of 1606 and 1607 -- The Great Contract -- "Not Many Arguments, but Strong": The Addled Parliament -- The Parliament of 1621: Harmony and Hard Work, February to April -- The Parliament of 1621: Descent into Conflict, May to December -- The M.P. Victorious: Buckingham and the Parliament of 1624 -- Farewell to Parliament -- Commerce and Colonization -- Overseas Ventures -- Collapse in Virginia -- Jacobean Gentleman -- The Measure of the Man. |
| Summary |
Theodore K. Rabb presents here the first full-scale biography of the influential English parliamentarian, colonizer, and religious thinker Sir Edwin Sandys (1561-1629). Rabb has studied Sandys's life and work for more than thirty years and shows that he played a vital role in the Jacobean Age's two most distinctive achievements: the early development of England's constitutional structure, and the overseas expansion that began the British empire. |
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Sandys made his contributions, Rabb demonstrates, in the course of an extraordinarily diverse career. Sandys sat in the House of Commons from the 1580s to the mid-1620s, becoming its elder statesman and most influential voice on economic affairs, constitutional issues, and parliamentary procedure. He was a leader of the Virginia Company and the Bermuda Company, which established and settled these two early English colonies, and was also a director of the East India Company. And in an age beset by religious extremism, Sandys wrote a book on religious toleration that was widely read and discussed throughout Europe. |
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Sandys, Edwin, Sir, 1561-1629.
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Great Britain -- History -- James I, 1603-1625 -- Biography.
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1625.
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Great Britain. Parliament -- History -- 17th century.
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Legislators -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Sandys, Edwin, Sir, 1561-1629. (OCoLC)fst00163698
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Great Britain. Parliament. (OCoLC)fst00530123
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Legislators. (OCoLC)fst00995828
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Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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1600 - 1699
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
0691026947 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780691026947 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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