For God, King, and People

Alexander B. Haskell is associate professor of history at the University of California, Riverside.

Its vast explorations into the providentialist and political underpinnings of Virginia's founding are impressive. . . . It is a must-read for professors and graduate students focused on English colonization." - Reading Religion "Can be read profitably by anyone interested in the early English Atlantic and in early modern ideologies of empire." - Journal of Church and State "Haskell has written an intellectual history that is deeply grounded in historical events." - The Journal of Southern History "Haskell's history of Virginia articulates in convincing fashion that the colony was not merely a physical space or the seedbed for the mercantile empire that would grow to fruition in later decades." - William and Mary Quarterly "Deeply researched, factually dense, and analytically sophisticated" - Journal of North Carolina Association of Historians "An intriguing analysis of a variety of texts and debates around early English engagement in the colonisation of the Americas." - English Historical Review "This complex, largely intellectual, history will be most valuable to those interested in a new vantage point from which to examine English colonization." - Canadian Journal of History