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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Principal: Working, Lauren, 1985- (Author)
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Series:Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
Acceso en liña: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.