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: | Licensed eBooks |
| 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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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108625227 |
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.