Rachel Winchcombe

Encountering early America

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Produktbeschreibung

Encountering early America traces the many cultural influences that shaped English understandings of the Americas in the sixteenth century. The book demonstrates that the first century of English engagement with America was dynamic, adaptive and had a lasting influence on exploration and settlement in the New World. -- .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9781526171740
• ISBN-10: 1526171740
• Artikelnr.: 66139428

Autorenporträt

Rachel Winchcombe is a Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Manchester.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: early English encounters with the New World 1 Understanding America: the theoretical origins of English colonialism 2 Commercialising America: religion
trade
and the challenges of English overseas expansion 3 Dressing America: clothing
nakedness
and the foundations of civility 4 Eating America: bodily discourse
diet
and environment in the early English colonial imagination Conclusions Index