Shaftesbury's Aristocratic Empire

This chapter considers how expanded England might have impacted on the aristocratic identity which shows to have been key to Shaftesbury's politics. It discusses the relationship between Shaftesbury's colonial and domestic political engagements. Shaftesbury's engagement with England&#...

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Published inAnthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury 1621-1683 pp. 101 - 125
Main Author Leng, Thomas
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United Kingdom Routledge 2011
Taylor & Francis Group
Edition1
Subjects
Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
Superb
Young Man
TNA
Lay A Way
Providence Island
Denzil Holles
Royal Divorce
Secretaries Of State
Edward III
Osborn Shelves
MS 63057B
Ashley River
Rightful Council
William III
Royal Africa Company
George Savile
Poyning's Law
Plantations Council
John Culpeper
Public Administration
Conventicle Act
Charles II's England
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Summary:This chapter considers how expanded England might have impacted on the aristocratic identity which shows to have been key to Shaftesbury's politics. It discusses the relationship between Shaftesbury's colonial and domestic political engagements. Shaftesbury's engagement with England's colonising movement was fourfold: as investor, proprietor, legislator, and via the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, intellectual pioneer. Shaftesbury was motivated to take on these responsibilities by the same combination of aristocratic ambition and duty which led him to take such a prominent role in the public administration of empire. Shaftesbury as proprietor had already dispensed with another governor, Yeamans in Carolina. Shaftesbury's engagement with Carolina was clearly different, and its relationship with his domestic political career perhaps more complex. Shaftesbury's council never became the all-seeing eye of the imperial state, its gaze being disproportionately drawn to the Caribbean at the expense of England's mainland American colonies.
ISBN:9780754661719
0754661717
DOI:10.4324/9781315567273-5