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Title Envisioning an English empire : Jamestown and the making of the North Atlantic world / edited by Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 368 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Early American studies
Early American studies.
Contents 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
Summary Envisioning an English Empire examines the founding of Jamestown in 1607 within its global, political, and cultural contexts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-356) and index
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Subject Smith, John, 1580-1631.
SUBJECT Smith, John, 1580-1631
Smith, John, 1580-1631 fast
Subject HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
British colonies
Kolonisten.
Indianen.
Cultuurcontact.
Acculturatie.
Kolonialisme.
SUBJECT Jamestown (Va.) -- History
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century
Subject America
Virginia -- Jamestown
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Appelbaum, Robert, 1952-
Sweet, John Wood, 1966-
ISBN 9780812204421
0812204425
1283212218
9781283212212
9786613212214
6613212210