Contents

Foreword

Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Introduction: Sea Changes

John Wood Sweet

Part I. Reading Encounters

1. The Conquest of Eden: Possession and Dominion in Early Virginia

James Horn

2. Powhatans Abroad: Virginia Indians in England

Alden T. Vaughan

3. John Smith Maps Virginia: Knowledge, Rhetoric, and Politics

Lisa Blansett

4. The Politics of Pathos: Richard Frethorne's Letters Home

Emily Rose

Part II. The World Stage

5. The Specter of Spain in John Smith's Colonial Writing

Eric Griffin

6. The White Othello: Turkey and Virginia in John Smith's True Travels

Pompa Banerjee

7. England, Morocco, and Global Geopolitical Upheaval

Susan Iwanisziw

8. Irish Colonies and the Americas

Andrew Hadfield

Part III. American Metamorphosis

9. Hunger in Early Virginia: Indians and English Facing Off over Excess, Want, and Need

Robert Appelbaum

10. Between “Plain Wilderness” and “Goodly Corn Fields”: Representing Land Use in Early Virginia

Jess Edwards

11. Settling with Slavery: Human Bondage in the Early Anglo-Atlantic World

Michael J. Guasco

12. “We All Smoke Here”: Behn's The Widdow Ranter and the Invention of American Identity

Peter C. Herman

Conclusion: Jamestown and Its North Atlantic World

Constance Jordan

Notes

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments