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Humanism and America - An Intellectual History of English Colonisation, 1500-1625 (Paperback)
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Humanism and America - An Intellectual History of English Colonisation, 1500-1625 (Paperback)
Series: Ideas in Context
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Humanism and America provides a major study of the impact of the
Renaissance and Renaissance humanism upon the English colonization
of America. The analysis is conducted through an interdisciplinary
examination of a broad spectrum of writings on colonization,
ranging from the works of Thomas More to those of the Virginia
Company. Andrew Fitzmaurice shows that English expansion was
profoundly neo-classical in inspiration, and he excavates the
distinctively humanist tradition that informed some central issues
of colonization: the motivations of wealth and profit, honour and
glory; the nature of and possibilities for liberty; and the
problems of just title, including the dispossession of native
Americans. Dr Fitzmaurice presents a colonial tradition which,
counter to received wisdom, is often hostile to profit, nervous of
dispossession and desirous of liberty. Only in the final chapters
does he chart the rise of an aggressive, acquisitive and possessive
colonial ideology.
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