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Multiple Monarchy and the Kent Island Controversy: A Scottish Licence, Chesapeake Rivalries and the London Business World
In: Journal of Scottish historical studies, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 1-19
ISSN: 1755-1749
Kent Island, located in Chesapeake Bay, was the subject of fierce debate and competition in the 1630s. Historians typically present the conflict in binary terms relating to its status as either part of one English colony or another; namely, was Kent Island part of the Virginia colony or was it part of the Maryland colony? There was, however, a third interpretation – that Kent Island was not part of an English colony at all but, rather, an independent Scottish trading outpost. This article examines the basis for this alternative interpretation. It was a pivotal issue in the contemporary debate as the initial European occupation of the island was predicated on the rights conveyed in a royal licence granted under the Scottish privy signet. Taking that grant as its starting point, the article analyses the ways in which the 1603 union of the crowns affected colonisation stemming from the British Isles under the Stuart monarchs. The Kent Island controversy is one example of the 'Scottish complication' that was present in many colonial endeavours traditionally thought of as solely English. 1
Scots in the English Atlantic from 1603 to 1660: Policy, Patronage, and Subjecthood
In: Itinerario: international journal on the history of European expansion and global interaction, Band 46, Heft 1, S. 40-61
ISSN: 2041-2827
AbstractThis 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.
Groups, Individuals & Constitutive Rules: The Conceptual Dilemma in Justifying Affirmative Action
In: Polity, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 77-103
ISSN: 1744-1684
Rational Constraint in Mass Belief Systems: The Role of Developmental Moral Stages in the Structure of Political Beliefs
In: Political psychology: journal of the International Society of Political Psychology, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 147
ISSN: 1467-9221
Groups, Individuals, and Constitutive Rules: The Conceptual Dilemma in Justifying Affirmative Action
In: Polity: the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 77
ISSN: 0032-3497
Political tolerance and stages of moral development: A conceptual and empirical alternative
In: Political behavior, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 45-80
ISSN: 1573-6687
Media Do Make a Difference: The Differential Impact of Mass Media in the 1976 Presidential Race
In: American journal of political science, Band 27, Heft 3, S. 407
ISSN: 1540-5907
Media Do Make a Difference: The Differential Impact of Mass Media in the 1976 Presidential Race
In: American journal of political science: AJPS, Band 27, Heft 3, S. 407
ISSN: 0092-5853
Personality: The Human Potential
In: The family coordinator, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 101
J. von Staudinger's Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch und dem Einführungsgesetze, Band 5, Erbrecht
In: J. von Staudinger's Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch und dem Einführungsgesetze Band 5
J. von Staudinger's Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch und dem Einführungsgesetze, Band 4, Familienrecht
In: J. von Staudinger's Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch und dem Einführungsgesetze Band 4
J. von Staudinger's Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch und dem Einführungsgesetze, Band 3, Sachenrecht
In: J. von Staudinger's Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch und dem Einführungsgesetze Band 3