Introduction
1. Religion before English Expansion
2. Reformation and the Politicization of Religious Expansion
3. Exporting the Religious Tensions of the Three Kingdoms
4. Restoration Settlement and the Growth of Diversity
5. Battling over Religious Identity in the Late Seventeenth
Century
6. Religious Encounters and the Making of a British Atlantic
7. Revivalism and the Growth of Evangelical Christianity
8. Revolutionary Divisions, Continuing Bonds
Conclusion: The British Atlantic World in Perspective
Suggestions for Further Reading
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Carla Gardina Pestana, W. E. Smith Professor of History at Miami University, is the author or editor of several books, including The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661.
"Protestant Empire is the most balanced account we now possess of
religion and the shaping of the British Atlantic world from the
Reformation to the American Revolution. Carla Gardina Pestana
lucidly shows how religion joined the various parts of that world
into a bounded whole yet introduced deep divisions whose
consequences remain with us today. Her successful synthesis offers
an authoritative introduction to these developments for students
and scholars alike."—David Armitage, Harvard University
"A remarkably learned survey of religion and empire in the British
Atlantic world."—Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
"Britain was the world's mightiest Protestant empire, but it was
also an empire of striking religious diversity and fragmentation.
In this important, wide-ranging book, Carla Pestana examines the
religious consequences of Britain's early modern expansion for
people throughout the Atlantic basin. The result is a major
contribution to the history of the British Atlantic world."—Eliga
H. Gould, University of New Hampshire
"In an ambitious, compelling discussion of Protestantism in the
British Atlantic, Carla Gardina Pestana asks whether religion
trumped politics and militarism in the shaping of colonies, the
growth of empires, and the development of cultural identities. She
makes a strong case that religion became the driving force of
British expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries."—William and Mary Quarterly
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