Description |
1 online resource (xv, 368 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Early American studies |
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Early American studies.
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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 |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Smith, John, 1580-1631.
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SUBJECT |
Smith, John, 1580-1631
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Smith, John, 1580-1631 fast |
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HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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British colonies
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Kolonisten.
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Indianen.
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Cultuurcontact.
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Acculturatie.
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Kolonialisme.
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SUBJECT |
Jamestown (Va.) -- History
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century
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America
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Virginia -- Jamestown
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Appelbaum, Robert, 1952-
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Sweet, John Wood, 1966-
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ISBN |
9780812204421 |
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0812204425 |
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1283212218 |
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9781283212212 |
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9786613212214 |
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6613212210 |
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