Jonathan Burton
Jonathan Burton is a scholar of early modern English literature and drama whose work examines cross-cultural encounters, Islam, and race; he is the author of Traffic and Turning: Islam and English Drama, 1579–1624 and co-editor (with Ania Loomba) of Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion.
Books
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1. Race In Early Modern England
A Documentary Companion
A curated collection of early modern English texts—spanning travel accounts, plays, legal and religious writings, and colonial records—traces how ideas of human difference took shape in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With contextual introductions and annotations, it shows how encounters with Africans, Muslims, Jews, Indigenous peoples, and the Irish were interpreted through intersecting lenses of religion, class, gender, commerce, and empire, revealing race as a fluid, historically contingent concept that hardened alongside overseas expansion, slavery, and the consolidation of state power.