1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910585954403321

Autore

Working Lauren <1985->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2020

ISBN

1-108-66045-2

1-108-66040-1

1-108-62522-3

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Cambridge studies in early modern British history

Disciplina

970.02

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910809608803321

Autore

Carter Tara

Titolo

Iceland's networked society : revealing how the global affairs of the Viking age created new forms of social complexity / / Tara Carter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-29334-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Northern World : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 A.D. peoples, economics and cultures, , 1569-1462 ; ; Volume 69

Disciplina

949.12/01

Soggetti

Social networks - Iceland - History - To 1500

Complexity (Philosophy) - Social aspects - Iceland - History - To 1500

Vikings - Iceland - History

Globalization - Social aspects - Iceland - History - To 1500

Cosmopolitanism - Iceland - History - To 1500

Iceland History To 1262

Iceland Economic conditions

Norway Relations Iceland

Iceland Relations Norway

Iceland Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Examining the process of secondary state development in Iceland -- Environmental constraints and the development of an autonomous secondary state -- The Norwegian world system : hegemonic colonial secondary state formation -- Examining the economic dimensions of early Icelandic society : a proposed methodology for multiregional settlement pattern analysis -- The archaeological survey of Hjaltadalur and Viovikursveit -- From independent traders to dependent tenants : reflections of an economic landscape in Skagafjorour -- The formation of a synergistic secondary state in the Norse economic territory.

Sommario/riassunto

Linked by the politics of global trade networks, Viking Age Europe was a well-connected world. Within this fertile social environment, Iceland ironically has been casted as a marginal society too remote to participate in global affairs, and destined to live in the shadow of its more successful neighbours. Drawing on new archaeological evidence, Tara Carter challenges this view, arguing that by building strong social networks the first citizens of Iceland balanced thinking globally while acting locally, creating the first cosmopolitan society in the North Atlantic. Iceland’s Networked Society asks us to reconsider how societies like Iceland can, even when positioned at the margins of competing empires, remain active in a global political economy and achieve social complexity on its own terms.