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- catalog abstract "Explains the course of English overseas expansion and the beginning of the overseas empire. Not since 1945 has a general account of the origins of the British Empire been published, as if the demise of the empire freed us from our imperial past and historians from any obligation to digest it. Of course, it has done nothing of the kind, but it does enable the historian today to approach that past in a more critical spirit and to attempt a deeper and more detached analysis than could have been expected a generation ago. The purpose of this work is therefore not merely to recount but to explain the course of English overseas expansion and the beginning of the overseas empire; a prolonged pregnancy, culminating in a difficult birth and sickly infancy. The introductory essay discusses the forces and motives involved in the expansion movement, which is seen as being part of a wider European movement and derivative in many ways from it. The author considers the attitude and conduct of the Tudors and early Stuarts towards this fundamentally commercial movement and examines the nature and importance of sea power, the contribution of different social groups, and the relevance of religious and economic ideals as well as nationalistic sentiment. These various themes are taken up again in the narrative chapters which follow, dealing with the enterprises of exploration, trade, plunder and colonisation successively through from the early Bristol quest for Brasil to the diverse ventures of the 1620s.".
- catalog contributor b639309.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Colonies History 16th century.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Colonies History 17th century.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Colonies History.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Commerce History.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain History 1485-".
- catalog created "1984.".
- catalog date "1984".
- catalog date "1984.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1984.".
- catalog description "1. Early ventures 1480-1550 -- 2. The northeast -- 3. From Muscovy to Persia -- 4. The Levant -- 5. Western Africa -- 6. The Caribbean -- 7. Beyond the equinoctial -- 8. Northwest with Frobisher and Davis -- 9. Gilbert's ventures -- 10. Roanoke -- 11. The sea-war 1585-1603 -- 12. The East India Company -- 13. The West Indies 1585-1630 -- 14. North America 1591-1630 -- 15. North and Northwest 1602-32 -- 16. Reflections -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 365-377.".
- catalog description "Explains the course of English overseas expansion and the beginning of the overseas empire. Not since 1945 has a general account of the origins of the British Empire been published, as if the demise of the empire freed us from our imperial past and historians from any obligation to digest it. Of course, it has done nothing of the kind, but it does enable the historian today to approach that past in a more critical spirit and to attempt a deeper and more detached analysis than could have been expected a generation ago. The purpose of this work is therefore not merely to recount but to explain the course of English overseas expansion and the beginning of the overseas empire; a prolonged pregnancy, culminating in a difficult birth and sickly infancy. The introductory essay discusses the forces and motives involved in the expansion movement, which is seen as being part of a wider European movement and derivative in many ways from it. The author considers the attitude and conduct of the Tudors and early Stuarts towards this fundamentally commercial movement and examines the nature and importance of sea power, the contribution of different social groups, and the relevance of religious and economic ideals as well as nationalistic sentiment. These various themes are taken up again in the narrative chapters which follow, dealing with the enterprises of exploration, trade, plunder and colonisation successively through from the early Bristol quest for Brasil to the diverse ventures of the 1620s.".
- catalog extent "ix, 394 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521257603".
- catalog identifier "0521276985 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1984".
- catalog issued "1984.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Colonies History 16th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Colonies History 17th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Colonies History.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Commerce History.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain History 1485-".
- catalog subject "382/.0942 19".
- catalog subject "Colonial companies.".
- catalog subject "HF3505 .A68 1984".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Early ventures 1480-1550 -- 2. The northeast -- 3. From Muscovy to Persia -- 4. The Levant -- 5. Western Africa -- 6. The Caribbean -- 7. Beyond the equinoctial -- 8. Northwest with Frobisher and Davis -- 9. Gilbert's ventures -- 10. Roanoke -- 11. The sea-war 1585-1603 -- 12. The East India Company -- 13. The West Indies 1585-1630 -- 14. North America 1591-1630 -- 15. North and Northwest 1602-32 -- 16. Reflections -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog title "Trade, plunder, and settlement : maritime enterprise and the genesis of the British Empire, 1480-1630 / Kenneth R. Andrews.".
- catalog type "text".