The making of an imperial polity : civility and America in the Jacobean metropolis

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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Working, Lauren, 1985- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press [2020]
Edition:First edition
Series:Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
Subjects:
Etiquette > England > History > 17th century.
Imperialism > Public opinion > History > 17th century.
Indians > Foreign public opinion, British > History > 17th century.
Indigenous people > Foreign public opinion, British > History > 17th century.
Indians > History > 17th century.
Indigenous people > History > 17th century.
Public opinion.
Public opinion > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
England > Social life and customs > 17th century.
Great Britain > Civilization > American influences.
Great Britain > Colonies > America > History > 17th century.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009645336306719
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.

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