What is the importance of England in Emerson: Essays and Lectures?

England is a nation located northeast of the Continental United States. There are well over a dozen essays dedicated to England and the English in the book. This may well be because the American colonies were primarily controlled by England - although this use of the term America is ambiguous enough that it can be easily misleading. Readers will tend to know that the United States of America is the nation meant, but given the number of nations in the Americas - the truth is that the English did not control "the Americas" but only vast tracts of North America - and even then, it is a well known fact that the French controlled a large part of the Canadian Eastern territories.