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Agents beyond the State

The Writings of English Travelers, Soldiers, and Diplomats in Early Modern Europe

By: Mark Netzloff

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Agents beyond the State

The Writings of English Travelers, Soldiers, and Diplomats in Early Modern Europe

By: Mark Netzloff

The early modern period is often seen as a pivotal stage in the emergence of a recognizably modern form of the state. Agents beyond the State returns to this context in order to examine the literary and social practices through which the early modern state was constituted. The state was defined not through the elaboration of theoretical models of sovereignty but rather as an effect of the literary and professional lives of its extraterritorial representatives. Netzloff focuses on the textual networks and literary production of three groups of extraterritorial agents: travelers and intelligence agents, mercenaries, and diplomats. These figures reveal the extent to which the administration of the English state as well as definitions of national culture were shaped by England's military, commercial, and diplomatic relations in Europe and other regions across the globe. Netzloff emphasizes the transnational contexts of early modern state formation, from the Dutch Revolt and relations with Venice to the role of Catholic exiles and nonstate agents in diplomacy and international law. These global histories of travel, service, and labor additionally transformed definitions of domestic culture, from the social relations of classes and regions to the private sphere of households and families. Literary writing and state service were interconnected in the careers of Fynes Moryson, George Gascoigne, and Sir Henry Wotton, among others. As they entered the realm of print and addressed a reading public, they introduced the practices of governance to an emerging public sphere.

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The Writings of English Travelers, Soldiers, and Diplomats in Early Modern Europe

By: Mark Netzloff

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The Writings of English Travelers, Soldiers, and Diplomats in Early Modern Europe

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Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740

By: Mark G. Hanna

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Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740

By: Mark G. Hanna

Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from the inception of England's burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its administrative consolidation by the 1740s. Although traditionally depicted as swashbuckling adventurers on the high seas, pirates played a crucial role on land. Far from a hindrance to trade, their enterprises contributed to commercial development and to the economic infrastructure of port towns. English piracy and unregulated privateering flourished in the Pacific, the Caribbean, and the Indian Ocean because of merchant elites' active support in the North American colonies. Sea marauders represented a real as well as a symbolic challenge to legal and commercial policies formulated by distant and ineffectual administrative bodies that undermined the financial prosperity and defense of the colonies. Departing from previous understandings of deep-sea marauding, this study reveals the full scope of pirates' activities in relation to the landed communities that they serviced and their impact on patterns of development that formed early America and the British Empire.

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UNC Press Books

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1469617951

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England's Internal Colonies

Class, Capital, and the Literature of Early Modern English Colonialism

By: M. Netzloff

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England's Internal Colonies

Class, Capital, and the Literature of Early Modern English Colonialism

By: M. Netzloff

In England's Internal Colonies , Netzloff examines how the literature and discursive practices of English colonialism emerged as an extension of internal colonialist ventures in regions of England, Scotland and Ireland. Netzloff argues that England's internal and overseas colonies were linked together as a result of a perceived crisis concerning the social position of England's labouring poor, an expanding underclass which found itself at the centre of both the anxieties and aspirations of colonial projects. Through an analysis of texts by Shakespeare, Jonson, Heywood, Speed and others, Netzloff discusses the interconnections between class and colonialism in relation to such topics as piracy, vagrancy, colonial labour practices, mercantilism and early modern capitalism, the status of gypsies, and the colonization of the Anglo-Scottish Borders and Ulster.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1403961832

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Agents beyond the State

Agents beyond the State

Agents beyond the State

Agents beyond the State

Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740

Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740

England's Internal Colonies

England's Internal Colonies

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