Format:
1 online resource (386 pages)
ISBN:
9780812204421
Series Statement:
Early American Studies
Content:
Envisioning an English Empire examines the founding of Jamestown in 1607 within its global, political, and cultural contexts.
Content:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Sea Changes -- Part I. Reading Encounters -- 1. The Conquest of Eden: Possession and Dominion in Early Virginia -- 2. Powhatans Abroad: Virginia Indians in England -- 3. John Smith Maps Virginia: Knowledge, Rhetoric, and Politics -- 4. The Politics of Pathos: Richard Frethorne's Letters Home -- Part II. The World Stage -- 5. The Specter of Spain in John Smith's Colonial Writing -- 6. The White Othello: Turkey and Virginia in John Smith's True Travels -- 7. England, Morocco, and Global Geopolitical Upheaval -- 8. Irish Colonies and the Americas -- Part III. American Metamorphosis -- 9. Hunger in Early Virginia: Indians and English Facing Off over Excess, Want, and Need -- 10. Between ''Plain Wilderness'' and ''Goodly Corn Fields'': Representing Land Use in Early Virginia -- 11. Settling with Slavery: Human Bondage in the Early Anglo-Atlantic World -- 12. ''We All Smoke Here'': Behn's The Widdow Ranter and the Invention of American Identity -- Conclusion: Jamestown and Its North Atlantic World -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812219036
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780812219036
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3441578
