This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and

Perhaps unexpectedly, English travel writing during the long eighteenth century reveals a discourse of global civility. By bringing together representations of

This significant reassessment of Jacobean political culture reveals how colonizing America transformed English civility in early seventeenth-century England. Th

Was the relationship between English settlers and Native Americans in the New World destined to turn tragic? This book investigates how the newcomers interacted

A major study of the cultural origins of the Tudor plantations in Ireland and of early English imperialism in general.