Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English AmericaThe most comprehensive portrait yet of Richard Hakluyt, indefatigable promoter of English colonization in America Though he never traveled farther than Paris, young Hakluyt spent much of the 1580s recording information about the western hemisphere and became an international authority on overseas exploration. The book traces his rise to prominence as a source of information and inspiration for England's policy makers, including the queen, and his advocacy for colonies in Roanoke and Jamestown. Hakluyt's thought was shaped by debates that stretched across Europe, and his interests ranged just as widely, encompassing such topics as peaceful coexistence with Native Americans, the New World as a Protestant Holy Land, and in, his later life, trade with the Spice Islands. |
Contents
1 London c 1592 Woodsons Tusk | 1 |
2 London 1568 The Visit | 8 |
3 Oxford c 1571 Rumors | 25 |
4 Oxford 1577 The Ice | 40 |
5 Oxford c 1580 Passages | 72 |
6 Paris 1583 The Devouring Sea | 102 |
7 Paris and London 1584 The Grammar of Colonization | 128 |
8 Paris and London 1584 to 1589 Cabinets and Curiosities | 156 |
9 London 1590 to 1600 Truth and Lies | 195 |
Other editions - View all
Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America Peter C. Mancall Limited preview - 2008 |
Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America Peter C. Mancall No preview available - 2007 |