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Envisioning an English empire : Jamestown and the making of the North Atlantic world /

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Appelbaum, Robert, 1952-, Sweet, John Wood, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2005.
Colección:Early American studies.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Sea changes / John Wood Sweet
  • The conquest of Eden : possession and dominion in early Virginia / James Horn
  • Powhatans abroad : Virginia Indians in England / Alden T. Vaughan
  • John Smith maps Virginia : knowledge, rhetoric, and politics / Lisa Blansett
  • The politics of pathos : Richard Frethorne's letters home / Emily Rose
  • The specter of Spain in John Smith's colonial writing / Eric Griffin
  • The white Othello : Turkey and Virginia in John Smith's True travels / Pompa Banerjee
  • England, Morocco, and global geopolitical upheaval / Susan Iwanisziw
  • Irish colonies and the Americas / Andrew Hadfield
  • Hunger in early Virginia : Indians and English facing off over excess, want, and need / Robert Appelbaum
  • Between "plain wilderness" and "goodly corn fields" : representing land use in early Virginia / Jess Edwards
  • Settling with slavery : human bondage in the early Anglo-Atlantic world / Michael J. Guasco
  • "We all smoke here" : Behn's The widdow ranter and the invention of American identity / Peter C. Herman
  • Conclusion : Jamestown and its North Atlantic world / Constance Jordan.