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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Working, Lauren, 1985- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in early modern British history.

Cambridge studies in early modern British history

Standardized Title:

Savagery and the state

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--North America--History--17th century.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--North America--Foreign public opinion, British--History--17th century.

Public opinion--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Public opinion.

Imperialism--Public opinion--History--17th century.

Imperialism.

Etiquette--England--History--17th century.

Etiquette.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1625.

Great Britain.

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.

England.

Physical Description:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781108660457

1108660452

9781108660402

1108660401

9781108625227

1108625223

OCLC:

1243537271

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access