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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.4 | The History Cooperative

Jacobean Gentleman: Sir Edwin Sandys, 1561-1629. By Theodore K. Rabb. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xiv, 412 pp. $55.00, isbn 0-691-02694-7.)

Rather surprisingly, this is the first attempt at a biography of Sir Edwin Sandys, a key figure in the early-seventeenth-century struggle between the Crown and the House of Commons. The omission is the more remarkable in that Sandys was also a leading proponent of England's overseas colonization as well as an important contributor to the debate on religion. However, as Professor Theodore K. Rabb comments, anyone writing a biography of Sandys faces the problem of sources. There are no personal papers, so the writer has to rely mainly on Sandys's published writings and speeches. For this reason Rabb has opted for a thematic approach to his book, dividing Sandys's life into its constituent parts rather than following a more traditional chronological format. . . .

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