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Hakluyt's Promise - An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America (Paperback)
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Hakluyt's Promise - An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America (Paperback)
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The most comprehensive portrait yet of Richard Hakluyt,
indefatigable promoter of English colonization in America 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illustrations-many unpublished since the sixteenth century-and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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