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Settling the Good Land
The history of the settlement project of the Massachusetts Bay Company in early New England. this book offers a critical reading of the settler history of its first governor, John Winthrop.
Tudor Empire
This book recasts one of the most well-studied and popularly-beloved eras in history: the tumultuous span from the 1485 accession of Henry VII to the 1603 death of Elizabeth I. Though many have gravitated toward this period for its high drama and national importance, the book offers a new narrative by focusing on another facet of the British past that has exercised an equally powerful grip on audiences: imperialism. It argues that the sixteenth century was pivotal to the making of both Britain and the British Empire. Unearthing over a century of theorizing about and probing into the world beyond England’s borders, Tudor Empire shows that foreign enterprise at once mirrored, responded to, a...
Late Tudor and Early Stuart Geography, 1583-1650
First published in 1934, Late Tudor and Early Stuart Geography is a critical commentary on a chronologically arranged bibliography of nearly two thousand contemporary printed and manuscript works. Poets, preachers and philosophers, mathematicians, physicians and astrologers, sailors, merchants and company-promoters were contributors to the absorbing medley that comprises the geographical literature of the late Tudor and early Stuart period. For this was the fading twilight of that Golden Age of unspecialized learning when all knowledge lay within one man’s compass. This book will be of interest to historians, economists, sociologists and litterateurs.
Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes
A 20-volume seventeenth-century work (reissued in a 1905-7 edition) which follows Hakluyt in recording voyages of exploration.
Hakluytus Posthumus
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