Investing with Meaning: The Raleigh Circle in the New World

by Shannon Miller

Book Overview

In the closing decades of the sixteenth century, England attempted its first colonial expansion into the New World through planned settlements in Ireland, Newfoundland, Virginia, and Guiana. All of these colonial efforts were unsuccessful. Yet these projects were a significant cultural force in early modern England. Influenced by recent work in postcolonial theory and cultural studies, Shannon Miller's Invested with Meaning examines the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812234421
• ISBN13: 9780812234428
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"