Sir Humphrey Gilbert And The Elizabethan Expedition

Author : Nathan J. Probasco
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030572587

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Sir Humphrey Gilbert and the Elizabethan Expedition by Nathan J. Probasco Pdf

This book examines the 1583 voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert to North America. This was England's first attempt at colonization beyond the British Isles, yet it has not been subject to thorough scholarly analysis for more than 70 years. An exhaustive examination of the voyage reveals the complexity and preparedness of this and similar early modern colonizing expeditions. Prominent Elizabethans assisted Gilbert by researching and investing in his expedition: the Printing Revolution was critical to their plans, as Gilbert’s supporters traveled throughout England with promotional literature proving England’s claim to North America. Gilbert’s experts used maps and charts to publicize and navigate, while his pilots experimented with new navigating tools and practices. Though he failed to establish a settlement, Gilbert created a blueprint for later Stuart colonizers who achieved his vision of a British Empire in the Western Hemisphere. This book clarifies the role of cartography, natural science, and promotional literature in Elizabethan colonization and elucidates the preparation stages of early modern colonizing voyages.

Author : Nathan J. Probasco
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 3030572579

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Sir Humphrey Gilbert and the Elizabethan Expedition by Nathan J. Probasco Pdf

This book examines the 1583 voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert to North America. This was England's first attempt at colonization beyond the British Isles, yet it has not been subject to thorough scholarly analysis for more than 70 years. An exhaustive examination of the voyage reveals the complexity and preparedness of this and similar early modern colonizing expeditions. Prominent Elizabethans assisted Gilbert by researching and investing in his expedition: the Printing Revolution was critical to their plans, as Gilbert’s supporters traveled throughout England with promotional literature proving England’s claim to North America. Gilbert’s experts used maps and charts to publicize and navigate, while his pilots experimented with new navigating tools and practices. Though he failed to establish a settlement, Gilbert created a blueprint for later Stuart colonizers who achieved his vision of a British Empire in the Western Hemisphere. This book clarifies the role of cartography, natural science, and promotional literature in Elizabethan colonization and elucidates the preparation stages of early modern colonizing voyages.

Author : Edward Hayes
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368325817

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Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Edward Hayes Pdf

Reproduction of the original.

Author : Edward Hayes
Publisher : Book Jungle
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1438532083

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Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Edward Hayes Pdf

Sir Humphrey Gilbert (c. 1539 -1583) was an English adventurer, explorer, and Member of Parliament. He is thought to have claimed the first land in North America for the British. Gilbert is the half brother of Sir Walter Raleigh. In 1583 Gilbert set sail with 5 ships whose crews were made up of misfits, criminals and pirates. On arriving at the port of St. John's, Newfoundland Gilbert found himself blockaded by the fishing fleet under the organization of the port admiral. Gilbert waved his letters patent about and, in a formal ceremony, took possession of Newfoundland.

Author : David Beers Quinn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317012061

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The Voyages and Colonising Enterprises of Sir Humphrey Gilbert by David Beers Quinn Pdf

A collection of documents, chiefly from English sources, including a few relating to Ireland, edited with introduction and notes. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 84) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1940.

Author : DavidBeers Quinn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351539463

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The Voyages and Colonising Enterprises of Sir Humphrey Gilbert by DavidBeers Quinn Pdf

Volume I: A collection of documents, chiefly from English sources, including a few relating to Ireland, edited with introduction and notes. First published: 1940. Volume II: Includes documents relating to the Munster plantation scheme, 1569, and the Knollys piracy, 1579. The main pagination is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volumes first published in 1940.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Colonization
ISBN : WISC:89069706083

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The Voyages and Colonising Enterprises of Sir Humphrey Gilbert by Anonim Pdf

Author : Active 1602 Hayes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9357936912

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Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Active 1602 Hayes Pdf

Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work, and hence their text is clear and readable. This remarkable book falls within the genres of General Works, Collections, Series, Collected works, Pamphlets

Author : John Guy
Publisher : TickTock Books
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1860070310

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Drake & the Elizabethan Explorers by John Guy Pdf

Although this follows the career of Sir Francis Drake it also gives a comprehensive overview, strikingly illustrated, of the great explorers and adventurers of Elizabethan times.

Author : Alan Wexler,Jon Cunningham
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438182155

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Biographical Dictionary of Explorers by Alan Wexler,Jon Cunningham Pdf

An informative, fascinating resource suitable for students, researchers, and general readers, this biographical dictionary is a "who was who" of world and space explorers, giving readers a sense of the human drama—the achievements and the challenges—that those who go where few or none have gone before must face. The explorers covered include Jacques Cousteau, Sir Vivian Fuchs, John Glenn Jr., Aleksei Leonov, Annie Peck, Valentina Tereshkova, and many more.

Author : Philip J. Stern
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674293489

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Empire, Incorporated by Philip J. Stern Pdf

“Brilliant, ambitious, and often surprising. A remarkable contribution to the current global debate about Empire and a small masterpiece of research and conceptual reimagining.” —William Dalrymple, author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire An award-winning historian places the corporation—more than the Crown—at the heart of British colonialism, arguing that companies built and governed global empire, raising questions about public and private power that were just as troubling four hundred years ago as they are today. Across four centuries, from Ireland to India, the Americas to Africa and Australia, British colonialism was above all the business of corporations. Corporations conceived, promoted, financed, and governed overseas expansion, making claims over territory and peoples while ensuring that British and colonial society were invested, quite literally, in their ventures. Colonial companies were also relentlessly controversial, frequently in debt, and prone to failure. The corporation was well-suited to overseas expansion not because it was an inevitable juggernaut but because, like empire itself, it was an elusive contradiction: public and private; person and society; subordinate and autonomous; centralized and diffuse; immortal and precarious; national and cosmopolitan—a legal fiction with very real power. Breaking from traditional histories in which corporations take a supporting role by doing the dirty work of sovereign states in exchange for commercial monopolies, Philip Stern argues that corporations took the lead in global expansion and administration. Whether in sixteenth-century Ireland and North America or the Falklands in the early 1980s, corporations were key players. And, as Empire, Incorporated makes clear, venture colonialism did not cease with the end of empire. Its legacies continue to raise questions about corporate power that are just as relevant today as they were 400 years ago. Challenging conventional wisdom about where power is held on a global scale, Stern complicates the supposedly firm distinction between private enterprise and the state, offering a new history of the British Empire, as well as a new history of the corporation.

Author : John Wagner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781136597619

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Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World by John Wagner Pdf

No period of British history generates such deep interest as the reign of Elizabeth I, from 1558 to 1603. The individuals and events of that era continue to be popular topics for contemporary literature and film, and Elizabethan drama, poetry, and music are studied and enjoyed everywhere by students, scholars, and the general public. The Historical Dictionary of the Elizabeth World provides clear definitions and descriptions of people, events, institutions, ideas, and terminology relating in some significant way to the Elizabethan period. The first dictionary of history to focus exclusively on the reign of Elizabeth I, the Dictionary is also the first to take a broad trans-Atlantic approach to the period by including relevant individuals and terms from Irish, Scottish, Welsh, American, and Western European history. Editors' Choice: Reference

Author : Jonathan Locke Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000352566

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Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire by Jonathan Locke Hart Pdf

Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire presents Shakespeare as both a local and global writer, investigating Shakespeare’s trans-cultural writing through the interrelations and interactions of binaries including theory and practice, past and present, aesthetics and ethics, freedom and tyranny, republic and empire, empires and colonies, poetry and history, rhetoric and poetics, England and America, and England and Asia. The book breaks away from traditional western-centric analysis to present a universal Shakespeare, exposing readers to the relevance and significance of Shakespeare within their local contexts and cultures. This text aims to present a global Shakespeare, utilizing a dual perspective or dialectical presentation, mainly centred on questions of (1) how Shakespeare can be viewed as both an English writer and a world writer; (2) how language operates across genres and kinds of discourse; and (3) how Shakespeare helps to articulate a poetics of both texts (literature) and contexts (cultures). The book’s originality lies in its articulation of the importance and value of Shakespeare in the emerging landscape of global culture.

Author : Kalyani Mookherji
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788184303025

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20 Greatest Explorers of the World by Kalyani Mookherji Pdf

The urge to explore is an ancient one in the human species. The earliest explorations were driven by physical needs like food and shelter. But later with greater resources at their disposal; human beings became curious about their extended geographical environment and began to venture further from their safe zone. Over time mankind began to recognize that with successful exploration came rewards. In fact access to virgin natural resources was one of the driving factors behind the Golden Age of Exploration during the 15th and 16th centuries when many significant discoveries were made about the geography of the Earth. Again in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; much of the exploration of Africa and Asia were driven by the need to discover and colonize new markets for goods made by European countries. The 20 Greatest Explorers of the World traces these currents in the journey of human exploration by focusing on the most famous explorers in history as well as some lesser known names who are nevertheless responsible for charting new territories. Ranging from classical Greece to the mid twentieth century; traversing all parts of the globe and indeed beyond it; these explorers are testament to the fact that the desire to know and discover has inspired humans across time and space in history.

Author : Mike Holgate
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780752475929

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Agatha Christie's True Crime by Mike Holgate Pdf

Fact proves far stranger than fiction in this collection of real-life crimes, scandals, tragedies and murders which either influenced the works of the world's most popular mystery writer or affected the lives of many famous personalities involved in her long and brilliant career. Discover the truth behind many of her books, such as how the exploits of Jack the Ripper inspired the serial killings in The ABC Murders and how the plot twist in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was suggested by Lord Mountbatten. This book also reveals how many of her illustrious acquaintances found themselves immersed in episodes so bizarre that they could have been written by Christie herself, including how the father of Miss Marple actress Margaret Rutherford committed murder and Poirot actor Peter Ustinov witnessed the assassination of a world leader. Agatha Christie's True Crime Inspirations is a fascinating addition to Christie literature, focusing on little-known parts of this iconic writer's life and career. From her early roots in Torquay to her infamous eleven-day disappearance, no stone is left unturned as the events of her own life are revealed to be every bit as intriguing as her world-renowned novels.