The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624 - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 080785848X ISBN 13: 9780807858486

Casa editrice: Omohundro Inst of Early Amer, 2007

Riassunto

Eighteen essays provide a fresh perspective on the encounter between the inhabitants of precolonial Virginia and the English, highlighting the regions and influences that formed the context for the English settlement at Jamestown in 1607. Simultaneous.

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L'autore:

Peter C. Mancall is professor of history and anthropology at the University of Southern California and director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. He is author of Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America and editor of Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery: An Anthology.

Product Description:

In response to the global turn in scholarship on colonial and early modern history, the eighteen essays in this volume provide a fresh and much-needed perspective on the wider context of the encounter between the inhabitants of precolonial Virginia and the English. This collection offers an interdisciplinary consideration of developments in Native America, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Chesapeake, highlighting the regions and influences that formed the context and impetus for the English settlement at Jamestown in 1607. The volume reflects an understanding of Jamestown not as the birthplace of democracy in America but as the creation of a European outpost in a neighborhood that included Africans, Native Americans, and other Europeans. With contributions from both prominent and rising scholars, this volume offers far-ranging and compelling studies of peoples, texts, places, and conditions that influenced the making of New World societies. As Jamestown celebrates its four-hundredth anniversary, this collection provides provocative material for teaching and launching new research.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Omohundro Inst of Early Amer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 080785848X
• ISBN 13: 9780807858486
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 596
• Redattore: Mancall Peter C.