"Envisioning an English Empire" examines the founding of Jamestown in 1607 within its global, political, and cultural contexts.
Robert Appelbaum is Lecturer in Renaissance Studies at Lancaster University and is the author of Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England. John Wood Sweet teaches history at the University of North Carolina and is the author of Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Foreword
xi
Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Introduction: Sea Changes
1
(24)
John Wood Sweet
Part I. Reading Encounters
The Conquest of Eden: Possession and Dominion in Early Virginia
25
(24)
James Horn
Powhatans Abroad: Virginia Indians in England
49
(19)
Alden T. Vaughan
John Smith Maps Virginia: Knowledge, Rhetoric, and Politics
68
(24)
Lisa Blansett
The Politics of Pathos: Richard Frethorne's Letters Home
92
(19)
Emily Rose
Part II. The World Stage
The Specter of Spain in John Smith's Colonial Writing
111
(24)
Eric Griffin
The White Othello: Turkey and Virginia in John Smith's True Travels
135
(17)
Pompa Banerjee
England, Morocco, and Global Geopolitical Upheaval
152
(20)
Susan Iwanisziw
Irish Colonies and the Americas
172
(23)
Andrew Hadfield
Part III. American Metamorphosis
Hunger in Early Virginia: Indians and English Facing Off over Excess, Want, and Need
195
(22)
Robert Appelbaum
Between ``Plain Wilderness'' and ``Goodly Corn Fields'': Representing Land Use in Early Virginia
217
(19)
Jess Edwards
Settling with Slavery: Human Bondage in the Early Anglo-Atlantic World
236
(18)
Michael J. Guasco
``We All Smoke Here'': Behn's The Widdow Ranter and the Invention of American Identity
254
(21)
Peter C. Herman
Conclusion: Jamestown and Its North Atlantic World
275
(14)
Constance Jordan
Notes
289
(36)
Bibliography
325
(32)
List of Contributors
357
(2)
Index
359
(10)
Acknowledgments
369
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