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Hakluyt s Promise

Release on 2008-10-01 | by Peter C. Mancall

Hakluyt: The Spirit of Our Race,'' Canadian Magazine 66 (1916): 491–495; ''The
Tercentenary of Richard Hakluyt,'' Geographical Journal 48 (1916); Foster
Watson's contribution to the English Pioneers of Progress: Empire Builders series
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Author: Peter C. Mancall
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300135270
Category: History
Page: 400
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Hakluyt s Promise

Richard Hakluyt the younger, a contemporary of William Shakespeare, advocated the creation of English colonies in the New World at a time when the advantages of this idea were far from self-evident. This book describes in detail the life and times of Hakluyt, a trained minister who became an editor of travel accounts. Hakluyt’s Promise demonstrates his prominent role in the establishment of English America as well as his interests in English opportunities in the East Indies. The volume presents nearly 50 illustrations—many unpublished since the sixteenth century—and offers a fresh view of Hakluyt’s milieu and the central concerns of the Elizabethan age. 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.

Language: en
Pages: 400

Hakluyt's Promise

Authors: Peter C. Mancall

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

Language: en
Pages: 404

Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe

Authors: Claire Jowitt

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-23 - Publisher: CRC Press

Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe is an interdisciplinary collection of 24 essays which brings together leading international scholarship on Hakluyt and his work. Best known as editor of The Principal Navigations (1589; expanded 1598-1600), Hakluyt was a key figure in promoting English colonial and commercial expansion

Language: en
Pages: 512

Marooned

Authors: Joseph Kelly

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-30 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, a groundbreaking history that makes the case for replacing Plymouth Rock with Jamestown as America's founding myth. We all know the great American origin story: It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking, pious Pilgrims thrived in the wilds of New England,

Language: en
Pages: 262

New Worlds Reflected

Authors: Chloë Houston

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in early modern globalization, travel and travel literature, whilst utopian literature has proved to be a continuing source of fascination for students of the intellectual and literary history of the early modern period. Drawing on this growth of interest, this volume brings