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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.

Imprint Philadelphia ; University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.21 En89 2005    ---  Available
Description xv, 368 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Series Early American studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-356) and index.
Contents Sea changes / John Wood Sweet -- 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 -- Politics of pathos : Richard Frethorne's letters home / Emily Rose -- Specter of Spain in John Smith's colonial writing / Eric Griffin -- 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 -- Jamestown and its North Atlantic world / Constance Jordan.
Subject Jamestown (Va.) -- History.
Smith, John, 1580-1631.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century.
Added Author Appelbaum, Robert, 1952-
Sweet, John Wood, 1966-
ISBN 0812219031 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780812219036 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0812238532 (alk. paper)
9780812238532 (alk. paper)
Standard No. NLGGC 267887566
YDXCP 2178192

 
    
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