Download or read book Andr Thevet s North America written by Roger Schlesinger and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1986-11-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: André Thevet was one of the most widely travelled Frenchmen of the sixteenth century, visiting almost all the main countries and regions of western Europe, the Near East, and Brazil. He served four consecutive French kings, beginning with Henry II, as Royal Cosmographer and "garde des singularitez." As cosmographer, he wrote three major books dealing with the discovery and subsequent exploration of the New World: Les Singularitez de la France antarctique (1556), La Cosmographie universelle (1575), and the Grand Insulaire (unpublished, 1586). Although the portions of these works devoted to South America have received considerable attention from scholars, Thevet's work on North America has remained inaccessible to students of the Age of Discovery. Professors Schlesinger and Stabler have now added Thevet to the list of enjoyable books by early European explorers of North America.
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Download or read book England and the Discovery of America 1481 1620 written by David B. Quinn and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1974, England and the Discovery of America places the early explorations of the English in North America in the broad context of 15th and 16th century history. Marshalling evidence that cannot be pushed aside and sifting a mass of fascinating detail (including problems of cartography and the Vinland Map controversy), Professor Quinn presents circumstantial indications pointing to 1481 as the date or the discovery of America by Bristol voyagers – fishermen seeking new sources of cod, and merchant sailors with maps carrying promise of unexploited Atlantic islands. Whereas England did little to follow up her early lead, Quinn demonstrates that English initiatives from the 1580s onward, though slow, were of great importance. He brings to life the men involved in a variety of rash and heroic experiments in colonization and casts new light on their fates. He makes it clear that it was this very profusion of trial and error and trail again, as well as the conviction that settlement in temperate latitudes in North America could be effective if tenaciously enough sought, that enabled the English to strike and maintain routes in their new American world. This book will be of interest to students of English history, American history, colonial history and naval history.
Download or read book Contesting Empires written by J. Hart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-02-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive archival research, this book looks at the earlier contest of empires in the New World, especially among Spain, France and England, and then examines the opposition to empire, the promotion of empire and the question of slavery. Hart's discussion on slavery has even larger scope ranging from early Arab, African and Portuguese practices in Africa and beyond to the legal abolition of slavery in the British empire, the United States and elsewhere in the Nineteenth-century.
Download or read book Narrative and Critical History of America Phyiography of North America written by Justin Winsor and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrative and Critical History of America French explorations and settlements in North America and those of the Portuguese Dutch and Swedes 1500 1700 c1884 written by Justin Winsor and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book French Exploration and Settlements in North America and Those of the Portuguese Dutch and Swedes 1500 1700 written by Justin Winsor and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book French explorations and settlements in North America and those of the Portuguese Dutch and Swedes 1500 1700 c1884 written by Justin Winsor and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing North America in the Seventeenth Century written by Catherine Armstrong and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining a range of seventeenth century literature, including travel narratives, promotional literature, plays, poetry and journals, this book examines the ways in which the geography and nature of the new colonies of North America were represented, both by the settlers themselves and commentators in Renaissance England. This is a valuable addition to literature of colonial history, transatlantic history, and the cultural world of early modern England.
Download or read book Catalogue of Rare Books Comprising the Valuable Library of the Late Col Charles L F Robinson of Hartford Conn written by Charles Leonard Frost Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Hon L E Chittenden written by Lucius Eugene Chittenden and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An essay towards an Indian bibliography a catalogue of books relating to the American Indians in the library of T W Field written by Thomas Warren Field and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Hon L E Chittenden Comprising Many Rare and Valuable Books written by Lucius Eugene Chittenden and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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