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Envisioning an English Empire - Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World (Paperback, New)
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Envisioning an English Empire - Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World (Paperback, New)
Series: Early American Studies
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Envisioning an English Empire brings together leading historians
and literary scholars to reframe our understanding of the history
of Jamestown and the literature of empire that emerged from it. The
founding of an English colony at Jamestown in 1607 was no isolated
incident. It was one event among many in the long development of
the North Atlantic world. Ireland, Spain, Morocco, West Africa,
Turkey, and the Native federations of North America all played a
role alongside the Virginia Company in London and English settlers
on the ground. English proponents of empire responded as much to
fears of Spanish ambitions, fantasies about discovering gold, and
dreams of easily dominating the region's Natives as they did to the
grim lessons of earlier, failed outposts in North America.
Developments in trade and technology, in diplomatic relations and
ideology, in agricultural practices and property relations were as
crucial as the self-consciously combative adventurers who initially
set sail for the Chesapeake. The collection begins by exploring the
initial encounters between the Jamestown settlers and the Powhatan
Indians and the relations of both these groups with London. It goes
on to examine the international context that defined English
colonialism in this period-relations with Spain, the Turks, North
Africa, and Ireland. Finally, it turns to the ways both settlers
and Natives were transformed over the course of the seventeenth
century, considering conflicts and exchanges over food, property,
slavery, and colonial identity. What results is a multifaceted view
of the history of Jamestown up to the time of Bacon's Rebellion and
its aftermath. The writings of Captain John Smith, the experience
of Powhatans in London, the letters home of a disappointed
indentured servant, the Moroccans, Turks, and Indians of the
English stage, the ethnographic texts of early explorers, and many
other phenomena all come into focus as examples of the envisioning
of a nascent empire and the Atlantic world in which it found a
hold.
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