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Envisioning an English Empire : Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Early American StudiesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (386 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812204421
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Envisioning an English EmpireDDC classification:
  • 973.21
LOC classification:
  • F234.J3 -- E58 2005eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Envisioning an English Empire examines the founding of Jamestown in 1607 within its global, political, and cultural contexts.
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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.

Envisioning an English Empire examines the founding of Jamestown in 1607 within its global, political, and cultural contexts.

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