title: Discourse of early migration to the Massachusetts bay colony
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metadata.value: Adamova, Nina E.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Shershneva, Svetlana V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-01-24T12:04:33Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-01-24T12:04:33Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Adamova N. E., Shershneva S. V. Discourse of early migration to the Massachusetts bay colony. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2017, vol. 62, issue 4, pp. 839–854.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2017.411
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8921
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The migration to the Massachusetts Bay Colony had crucial consequences for the seventeenth
  century England and her colonies. It provided momentum for the Great Migration on the eve of the
  English Civil Wars of the 1640s, it preconditioned the advance of theocracy and local exceptionalism in
  Massachusetts, and finally, it fostered the development of ‘New England Puritanism’, which influenced
  the both sides of Atlantic. However, these impressive outcomes could not be known at the very start of
  emigration to Massachusetts in 1628–1631. Did English men and women ever notice this migration?
  Was it seen as something exceptional? Did it have any impact on domestic issues in England? Relying
  on promotional literature, sermons, and correspondence, this paper places migration to Massachusetts
  within transatlantic context of the early Stuart period and explores the views of its participants and
  observers. It argues that migration to Massachusetts between 1628 and 1631 was never regarded as
  an exceptional opportunity. Although mobility was not uncommon for English society, its discourse
  generally favoured other destinations such as Ireland, the Netherlands or the West Indies. Even the
  ‘godly’ regarded Massachusetts as just one of the suitable settlements and stressed its unexceptional
  nature. However, the paper outlines two crucial impacts, the discourse of early Massachusetts
  migration did have on the English society. First, it improved public perception of potential emigrants
  by upgrading their image from the ‘idle drones’ of John Smith to the respectful ‘godly’. Secondly, it
  introduced contemporary religious controversy into the discussions of migration to America, thus
  setting the discourse of Reformation in transatlantic perspective. Refs 50.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The article was prepared within the grant of the President of Russian Federation to support young
  Russian scholars, MK-3624.2017.6 (“Theory and practice of revolution in the context of the development of
  parliamentary monarchy in Great Britain in XVII–XIXth centuriesˮ).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 62; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: New England
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Great migration
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Atlantic world
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: early modern England
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: exceptionalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: colonisation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: puritans
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: godly
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: John Winthrop
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Smith
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: English Reformation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: America
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Discourse of early migration to the Massachusetts bay colony
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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