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• catalog abstract ""What were the English reading about the "New World" in the early decades of colonization? This unique collection explores 10 primary documents - promotional tracts, reports to monarchs, travel narratives, and the like - from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to reveal the visions and motives of those who promoted emigration and those who participated in it. An introductory essay places these documents within the historical context of Europe and the Americas during the Age of Discovery. Also included are 16 contemporary engravings of Native Americans, questions to consider when reading the documents, a chronology of exploration and colonization in the Americas, a bibliography, and an index."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b7826632.
• catalog coverage "America Discovery and exploration British Sources.".
• catalog coverage "America Discovery and exploration English Sources.".
• catalog coverage "United States History Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775 Sources.".
• catalog coverage "United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Sources.".
• catalog created "c1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "c1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
• catalog description ""What were the English reading about the "New World" in the early decades of colonization? This unique collection explores 10 primary documents - promotional tracts, reports to monarchs, travel narratives, and the like - from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to reveal the visions and motives of those who promoted emigration and those who participated in it. An introductory essay places these documents within the historical context of Europe and the Americas during the Age of Discovery. Also included are 16 contemporary engravings of Native Americans, questions to consider when reading the documents, a chronology of exploration and colonization in the Americas, a bibliography, and an index."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-175) and index.".
• catalog description "Part One. Introduction : English promotion and settlement of the Americas -- Part Two. The documents -- Inducements to the liking of the voyage intended towards Virginia in 40 and 42 degrees (1585) / Richard Hakluyt (the elder) -- Discourse of Western planting (1584) / Richard Hakluyt (the younger) -- A true report of the late discoveries by Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1583) / George Peckham -- A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (1590) / Thomas Harriot -- Illustration section : selections from Theodor de Bry's engravings of John White's True pictures and fashions of the people in that parte of America now called Virginia (1585) -- Of the voyage for Guiana / Sir Walter Raleigh -- A true declaration of the estate of the colonie in Virginia (Issued by the Virginia company) (1610) / Anonymous -- Reasons to be considered for justifying the undertakers of the intended plantation in New England and for encouraging such whose hearts God shall move to join with them in it (1629) / John Winthrop -- A decription of New England (1616) and Advertisements for the unexperienced planters of New England, or any where (1631) / John Smith -- New England's prospect / William Wood.".
• catalog extent "x, 182 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0312122527 (hardcover)".
• catalog isPartOf "The Bedford series in history and culture".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "c1995.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press,".
• catalog spatial "America Discovery and exploration British Sources.".
• catalog spatial "America Discovery and exploration English Sources.".
• catalog spatial "United States History Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775 Sources.".
• catalog spatial "United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Sources.".
• catalog subject "970.01/7 20".
• catalog subject "E127 .E59 1995".
• catalog tableOfContents "Part One. Introduction : English promotion and settlement of the Americas -- Part Two. The documents -- Inducements to the liking of the voyage intended towards Virginia in 40 and 42 degrees (1585) / Richard Hakluyt (the elder) -- Discourse of Western planting (1584) / Richard Hakluyt (the younger) -- A true report of the late discoveries by Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1583) / George Peckham -- A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (1590) / Thomas Harriot -- Illustration section : selections from Theodor de Bry's engravings of John White's True pictures and fashions of the people in that parte of America now called Virginia (1585) -- Of the voyage for Guiana / Sir Walter Raleigh -- A true declaration of the estate of the colonie in Virginia (Issued by the Virginia company) (1610) / Anonymous -- Reasons to be considered for justifying the undertakers of the intended plantation in New England and for encouraging such whose hearts God shall move to join with them in it (1629) / John Winthrop -- A decription of New England (1616) and Advertisements for the unexperienced planters of New England, or any where (1631) / John Smith -- New England's prospect / William Wood.".
• catalog title "Envisioning America : English plans for the colonization of North America, 1580-1640 / edited with an introduction by Peter C. Mancall.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "Sources. fast".
• catalog type "text".