Making of an Imperial Polity

Making of an Imperial Polity

Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis

Working, Lauren (University of Oxford)

Cambridge University Press

12/2019

284

Dura

Inglês

9781108494069

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Bringing to life the interaction between America, its peoples, and statesmen in early seventeenth-century England, this book offers new perspectives on Jacobean tastes and political culture, confronting the histories of colonialism and domestic political development. This title is also available as Open Access.
Introduction; 1. Cultivation and the American project; 2. Colony as microcosm: Virginia and the metropolis; 3. Cannibalism and the politics of bloodshed; 4. Tobacco, consumption, and imperial intent; 5. Wit, sociability, and empire; Conclusion.
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