Envisioning an English Empire brings together leading historians and literary scholars to reframe our understanding of the history of Jamestown and the literature of empire that emerged from it.
The founding of an English colony at Jamestown in 1607 was no isolated incident. It was one event among many in the long development of the North Atlantic world. Ireland, Spain, Morocco, West Africa, Turkey, and the Native federations of North America all played a role alongside the Virginia Company in London and English settlers on the ground. English proponents of empire responded...
Envisioning an English Empire brings together leading historians and literary scholars to reframe our understanding of the history of Jamest...
Bodies Politic Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830 John Wood Sweet "At once detailed and sweeping, social and political, archival and synthetic. . . . This book is the best application yet to early American history of postcolonial theory."--American Historical Review "An ambitious and persuasive account of the ways the political inclusion of some groups and not others connected the colonial era through the Revolution to the early American republic."--Journal of American History "Sweet offers scholars a capacious history of race in the North and a primer for...
Bodies Politic Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830 John Wood Sweet "At once detailed and sweeping, social and political, archival and sy...
In Biography and the Black Atlantic, leading historians in the field of Atlantic studies examine the biographies and autobiographies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century African-descended people and reflect on the opportunities and limitations these life stories present to studies of slavery and the African diaspora. The essays remind us that historical developments like slavery and empire-building were mostly experienced and shaped by men and women outside of the elite political, economic, and military groups to which historians often turn as sources.
Despite the scarcity of...
In Biography and the Black Atlantic, leading historians in the field of Atlantic studies examine the biographies and autobiographies of eigh...
