Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World

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Contents Foreword xi Karen Ordahl Kupperman Introduction: Sea Changes 1 John Wood Sweet Part I. Reading Encounters 1. The Conquest of Eden: Possession and Dominion in Early Virginia 25 James Horn 2. Powhatans Abroad: Virginia Indians in England 49 Alden T. Vaughan 3. John Smith Maps Virginia: Knowledge, Rhetoric, and Politics 68 Lisa Blansett 4. The Politics of Pathos: Richard Frethorne’s Letters Home 92 Emily Rose Part II. The World Stage 5. The Specter of Spain in John Smith’s Colonial Writing 111 Eric Griffin 6. The White Othello: Turkey and Virginia in John Smith’s True Travels 135 Pompa Banerjee 7. England, Morocco, and Global Geopolitical Upheaval 152 Susan Iwanisziw 8. Irish Colonies and the Americas 172 Andrew Hadfield vi Contents Part III. American Metamorphosis 9. Hunger in Early Virginia: Indians and English Facing Off over Excess, Want, and Need 195 Robert Appelbaum 10. Between ‘‘Plain Wilderness’’ and ‘‘Goodly Corn Fields’’: Representing Land Use in Early Virginia 217 Jess Edwards 11. Settling with Slavery: Human Bondage in the Early Anglo-Atlantic World 236 Michael J. Guasco 12. ‘‘We All Smoke Here’’: Behn’s The Widdow Ranter and the Invention of American Identity 254 Peter C. Herman Conclusion: Jamestown and Its North Atlantic World 275 Constance Jordan Notes 289 Bibliography 325 List of Contributors 357 Index 359 Acknowledgments 369 ATLANTIC OCEAN PACIFIC OCEAN HUDSON BAY Gulf of Mexico CARIBBEAN SEA 0 0 1000 2000 Kilometers 1000 2000 Miles Rouen CAPE VERDE ISLANDS CANARIES BERMUDA BAFFIN GREENLAND HISPANIOLA CUBA MADEIRA AZORES Lima Cartagena Nombre de Dios Porto Bello San Juan Santo Domingo Havana St. Augustine New Amsterdam Plymouth Montreal Quebec Bristol Amsterdam London Paris St. Malo La Rochelle Lisbon Seville Cadiz Santiago El Mina Timbuktu São Tomé Plymouth Vera Cruz Pará São Luis Ceaeá Olinda Bahia MOROCCO M A U R I T ANIA SENEGAMBIA GOLD COAST E U R O P E ICELAND GUINEA VIRGINIA ACADIA NEWFOUNDLAND IROQUOIS POWHATANS CHEROKEE N E W S P A I N VENEZUELA PERU BRAZIL GUIAN A MARANHAO Amazon R. S A H A R A D E S E R T S A V A N A H M E D I T E R R A N E A N S E A F i s h i n g b a n k s Trade routes Map 1. The North Atlantic World: principal trade routes, ca. 1630. Sources: Meinig, The Shaping of America, map 8; Gleach, Powhatan’s World, fig. 1; KwamelnaPoh et al., African History in Maps, map 6. C h e s a p e a k e B a y A T L A N T I C O C E A N KECOUGHTAN CHISKIAK WEROWOCOMOCO PIANKATANK OPISCOPANK CUTTATOWOMEN CUTTATOWOMEN POTOMAC MORAUGHTACUND WICOCOMOCO CHICACOAN RAPPAHANNOCK ONAWMANIENT PISSASECK NANTAUGHTACUND ACCOMAC ACCOHANNOCK QUIOCCOHANNOCK PASPEHEGH WEYANOCK ARROHATTOC POWHATAN CHICAHOMINY YOUGHTANUND PAMUNKEY MATTAPONI APPOMATTOC NANSEMOND CHESAPEAKE WARRASKOYACK Fall Line M A N A H O A C S M O N A C A N S MANGOAKS P O W H A T A N S Jamestown Rappahannock R. Potomac R. York R. James R. Cape Henry Cape Charles 0 0 10 20 30 Kilometers 30 Miles 20 10 Under English control in 1622 Under English control in 1652 Map 2. Powhatan territory and the Virginia colony, 1607–1652. Sources: Gleach, Powhatan’s World, fig. 2; Nugent, Cavaliers and Pioneers, 1611, 1622, 1652; Billings, The Old Dominion. M E D I T E R R A N E A N S E A B L A C K S E A A T L A N T I C O C E A N Prague Leipzig Constantinople Jerusalem Damascus Porto Valladolid Cadiz Gibraltar Cueta Tetouan Fez Alcazar Marrakesh Sijilmasa Safi Agadir Algiers Melilla Tunis Paris Buda Pest Vienna Tripoli Cairo Alexandria Aujila Murzuk Ghat Tadmekka Taodeni Taghaza Ghadames TUAT CYPRUS SICILY SARDINIA CORSICA CRETE NORTH SEA B A L T I C S E A S P A I N F R A N C E SWISS CONFED. SAVOY MILAN VENICE AUSTRIA BOHEMIA TRANSYLVANIA MOLDVOVA WALLACHIA P O L A N D M U S C O V Y K H A N A T E O F C R I M E A S W E D E N ENGLAND PORTUGAL NETHERLANDS FLANDERS PAPAL STATES TUSCANY NAPLES E G Y P T...