| Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World Envisioning an English Empire examines the founding of Jamestown in 1607 within its global, political, and cultural contexts. Robert Appelbaum is Lecturer in Renaissance Studies at Lancaster University and is the author of Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England. John Wood Sweet teaches history at the University of North Carolina and is the author of Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |