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Title:

Envisioning an English empire : Jamestown and the making of the North Atlantic world / edited by Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xv, 368 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Smith, John,--1580-1631.
Jamestown (Va.)--History.
Great Britain--History--America--History--17th century.

Other Authors:

Appelbaum, Robert, 1952-
Sweet, John Wood, 1966-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-356) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Sea changes / John Wood Sweet -- The conquest of Eden : possession and dominion in early Virginia / James Horn -- Powhatans abroad : Virginia Indians in England / Alden T. Vaughan -- John Smith maps Virginia : knowledge, rhetoric, and politics / Lisa Blansett -- The politics of pathos : Richard Frethorne's letters home / Emily Rose -- The specter of Spain in John Smith's colonial writing / Eric Griffin -- The white Othello : Turkey and Virginia in John Smith's True travels / Pompa Banerjee -- England, Morocco, and global geopolitical upheaval / Susan Iwanisziw -- Irish colonies and the Americas / Andrew Hadfield -- Hunger in early Virginia : Indians and English facing off over excess, want, and need / Robert Appelbaum -- Between "plain wilderness" and "goodly corn fields" : representing land use in early Virginia / Jess Edwards -- Settling with slavery : human bondage in the early Anglo-Atlantic world / Michael J. Guasco -- "We all smoke here" : Behn's The widdow ranter and the invention of American identity / Peter C. Herman -- Conclusion : Jamestown and its North Atlantic world / Constance Jordan.

Series:

Early American studies

ISBN:

9780812219036 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0812219031 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780812238532 (alk. paper)
0812238532 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56481403

LCCN:

2004058847

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)