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Hakluyt's Promise - An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America (Hardcover)
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Hakluyt's Promise - An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America (Hardcover)
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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nearly 50 illustrations--many unpublished since the sixteenth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.
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