Encountering Early America

Author:   Rachel Winchcombe
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
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9781526145772


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   20 April 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Encountering early America traces the many cultural influences that shaped English understandings of the Americas in the sixteenth century. The book demonstrates that the first century of English engagement with America was dynamic, adaptive and had a lasting influence on exploration and settlement in the New World. This is the first major study to comprehensively analyse English encounters with the New World in the sixteenth century and their impact on early English understandings of America and changing approaches to exploration and settlement. The book traces the dynamism of early English encounters with the Americas and the many cultural influences that shaped English understandings of the new lands across the Atlantic. It illustrates that rather than being a period of inconsequential colonial failure in the Americas, the sixteenth century was in fact an era of assessment, adaptation and application that culminated in the survival of the first Anglo-American colony at Jamestown. Encountering early America will appeal to students and scholars working on early English colonialism in North America and European cultural encounters with the New World.

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Author:   Rachel Winchcombe
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
ISBN:  

9781526145772


ISBN 10:   1526145774
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   20 April 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Early English encounters with the New World 1 Understanding America: The theoretical origins of English colonialism 2 Commercialising America: Religion, trade, and the challenges of English colonialism 3 Dressing America: Clothing, nakedness, and the foundations of civility 4 Eating America: Bodily discourse in the early English colonial imagination Conclusions Index -- .

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Rachel Winchcombe is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Manchester

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