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

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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.

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970.02 MAK L

Publisher

United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press., 2020

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xiv, 270 p ; ill

Language

English

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9781108625227

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970.02

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Politics and government
Manners and customs
Great Britain
Civilization
England
British History after 1450
Public opinion
British colonies
America

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