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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.
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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17th century, Biography, Great Britain, Great Britain. Parliament, History, Legislators, Politics and government, Great britain, parliament, Great britain, history, stuarts, 1603-1714, Great britain, politics and government, 1603-1714People
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Jacobean gentleman: Sir Edwin Sandys, 1561-1629
1998, Princeton University Press
in English
0691026947 9780691026947
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