Lauren Working

The Making of an Imperial Polity

Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis

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Produktbeschreibung

This significant reassessment of Jacobean political culture reveals how colonizing America transformed English civility in early seventeenth-century England. This title is also available as Open Access.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781108494069
• ISBN-10: 1108494064
• Artikelnr.: 57088057

Autorenporträt

Lauren Working is Research Associate on the ERC-funded TIDE project (Travel, Transculturality, and Identity in England, 1550-1700) at the University of Oxford. She has held fellowships at the Jamestown archaeological site and the Royal Anthropological Institute, where she continues to develop methodologies and projects that explore indigeneity, colonial legacies, and heritage in English museums.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Cultivation and the American project
2. Colony as microcosm: Virginia and the metropolis
3. Cannibalism and the politics of bloodshed
4. Tobacco, consumption, and imperial intent
5. Wit, sociability, and empire
Conclusion.