The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis

by Lauren Working

Book Overview

Bringing to life the interaction between America, its peoples, and metropolitan gentlemen in early seventeenth-century England, this book argues that colonization did not just operate on the peripheries of the political realm, and confronts the entangled histories of colonialism and domestic status and governance. The Jacobean era is reframed as a definitive moment in which the civil self-presentation of the elite increasingly became implicated in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108494064
• ISBN13: 9781108494069
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"