The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624
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 mosaic of 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 th…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8078-5848-6
- EAN: 9780807858486
- Produktnummer: 2912310
- Verlag: Omohundro Institute and University of North Caroli
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 610 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D3.5 cm 969 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 969
Über den Autor
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. Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
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