18 From a Sermon Preached to the Honourable Company of the Virginian Plantation, 13o November. 1622

Donne, John; Simpson, Evelyn; Gardner, Helen; Healy, T. S.

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“…421 In a sermon to the VC, John Donne further reassured the British audience by telling them that they may possess Virginian land as it was "never inhabited by any, or utterly derelicted and immemorially abandoned by the former inhabitants". 422 The first charter of the East India Company too settled for areas which were not "already in the lawful and actual Possession of any such Christian Prince or State" but which "had long since been discovered by others of our Subjects, albeit not frequented in Trade of Merchandize", directing company business east of the Cape of Good Hope and far from the Spanish who had a strong hold over the New World. 423 The very name of the East India Company advertised those ambitions.…”

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“Treasure Maps: Cartography in the Hands of the Virginia Company and the East India Company, 1600-1625”

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2023

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“…So also is it, if the inhabitiants doe not in some measure fill the Land, so as the Land may bring forth her increase for the use of men'. 35 Donne, however, was more confident than many other writers on colonies. Others frequently acknowledged that the natives held natural law rights in the land and limited their claims to the right to trade.…”

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The Ideology of Early Modern Colonisation

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2004

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This article argues that colonial ideologies were the concern of more than a privileged élite in early modern Europe. The article shows that early modern English colonisation was torn between the humanistic pursuit of glory, or greatness, and humanist and scholastic scepticism of empire. The article also addresses the relation between state formation and European expansion, and concludes that these processes were inherently linked rather than merely parallel. Historians have focused on the Machiavellian character of the early modern European ideology of greatness, or grandezza. They have accordingly concluded that where grandezza informed the pursuit of empire, it was driven by the Machiavellian concern with virtue rather than profit. According to such accounts, early modern ideologies of empire were uncomfortable with commerce. It is argued here that these accounts have overlooked the emergence of an alternative account of grandezza in early modern Europe, which presented commerce as the means to greatness.

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“…becomes theirs that will possess it' (cit., p. 701). 45 This was an early charter for Indigenous dispossession, laid out in Donne's sermon to the Virginia Company on the biblical text that lends the book its title: 'ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth' (Acts 1:8 KJV). St Paul presumably imagined the Mediterranean ecumene as a universal missionground; similarly Donne, the Indies, West and perhaps East.…”

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Home and the world: the legal imagination of Martti Koskenniemi

Armitage

2022

International Relations

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The Finnish lawyer-historian Martti Koskenniemi’s new book, To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth: Legal Imagination and International Power, 1300–1870 (2021), is the culmination of a 30-year-long project to deconstruct and historicise the reigning assumptions of the profession of international law. This article evaluates To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth in the context of Koskenniemi’s larger critical project as well as within the historiography of international law from the late 19th century to the present. It argues that Koskenniemi’s genealogical method is revealing and frustrating in equal measure: frustrating in its diffuseness and lack of overarching argument but revealing in its scope, in its erudition and in its ambitions to disrupt traditional teleologies, to reveal the constraining force of legal language and to expose European dialogues between ‘domestic’ and international law over more than 500 years.

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18 From a Sermon Preached to the Honourable Company of the Virginian Plantation, 13o November. 1622

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The Ideology of Early Modern Colonisation

Home and the world: the legal imagination of Martti Koskenniemi

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