Invested with Meaning
The Raleigh Circle in the New World

Shannon Miller

1998 | 248 pages | Cloth $49.95
American History

Table of Contents

Introduction: Circles of Influence

1. English Identity and the Discourse of New World "Idleness"
2. Redefining Home: England, Ireland, and the New World Experience
3. Exchanging the New World: Production and Reproduction in the Newfoundland Enterprise
4. Engendering Investment: Patronage, Profit, and the Female Body in the Virginia Enterprise
5. Coining the Realm: Strategies for Colonization in Raleigh's 1595 Guiana Project

Conclusion: Decentering Raleigh

Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index