The making of an imperial polity : civility and America in the Jacobean metropolis

Author/Creator:

Working, Lauren, 1985- author

Publication/Creation:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

The making of an imperial polity : civility and America in the Jacobean metropolis / Lauren Working

Uniform Title:

Savagery and the state

Series Titles:

Cambridge studies in early modern British history
Cambridge studies in early modern British history.

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Electronic books

Subjects:

Indians--History--17th century
Indians--Foreign public opinion, British--History--17th century
Public opinion--Great Britain--History--17th century
Imperialism--Public opinion--History--17th century
Etiquette--England--History--17th century
Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1625
Great Britain--Colonies--America--Public opinion--History--17th century
Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--17th century
Great Britain--Civilization--American influences
Great Britain--Civilization--17th century
England--Social life and customs--17th century

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Cultivation and the American project -- Colony as microcosm : Virginia and the metropolis -- Cannibalism and the politics of bloodshed -- Tobacco, consumption, and imperial intent -- Wit, sociability, and empire.

Summary:

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 the imperial. The tastes and social lives of statesmen contributed to this shift in the English political gaze. At the same time, bringing English political civility in dialogue with Native American beliefs and practices speaks to inherent tensions in the state's civilizing project and the pursuit of refinement through empire. This significant reassessment of Jacobean political culture reveals how colonizing America transformed English civility and demonstrates how metropolitan politics and social relations were uniquely shaped by territorial expansion beyond the British Isles. This title is also available as Open Access.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

General Note:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2020).

Local Note:

Available to current Emory faculty, students and staff.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937004217902486

ISBN:

9781108625227