The making of an imperial polity civility and America in the Jacobean metropolis
Bringing to life the interaction between America, its peoples, and metropolitan gentlemen in early seventeenth-century England, this book argues that colonization did not just operate on the peripheries of the political realm, and confronts the entangled histories of colonialism and domestic status...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2020
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in early modern British history
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Cultivation and the American project
- Colony as microcosm : Virginia and the metropolis
- Cannibalism and the politics of bloodshed
- Tobacco, consumption, and imperial intent
- Wit, sociability, and empire