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Book Synopsis The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1607--1689 by : Wesley Frank Craven
Download or read book The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1607--1689 written by Wesley Frank Craven and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is Volume I of A HISTORY OF THE SOUTH, a ten-volume series designed to present a balanced history of all the complex aspects of the South’s culture from 1607 to the present. Like its companion volumes, The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century was written by an outstanding student of Southern history. In the America of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, just what was Southern? The first colonists looked upon themselves as British, and only gradually did those attitudes and traditions develop which were distinctively American. To determine what was Southern in the early colonies, Professor Craven has searched for those features of early American society which distinguished the South in later years and those features of early American history which help the Southerner to understand himself. The Chesapeake colonies—Virginia and Maryland—formed the first Southern community. These colonies grew out of the same interest which directed European imperialism toward Africa and the West Indies—notably the production of sugar, silk, wine, and tobacco. Craven studies the social, economic, and political development of the Southern colonies as the product of continuing European rivalries that resulted in the colonization of Carolina and Florida. Major emphasis, however, is placed upon British expansion, since Anglo-Saxon influence was dominant in the formation of the South as a region. Craven sees as crucial the middle period of the seventeenth century. Out of the political and social unrest which characterized these years emerged the points of view which gave shape to the American and the Southern tradition.
Download or read book Swordsmen written by Roger Burrow Manning and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon a wide range of historical and literary sources, Swordsmen is a scholarly study of the military experiences of peers and gentlemen from the British Isles who volunteered to fight in the religious and dynastic wars of mainland Europe from the English intervention in the Dutch war of independence in 1585 to the death of the soldier-king William III in 1702. This apprenticeship in arms exposed these aristocrats to the chivalric revival, the military revolution and the values of neostoicism, and revived the martial ethos of the English aristocracy and reinvigorated the martial traditions of the Irish and Scots.
Download or read book Sir Francis Drake written by Harry Kelsey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of Sir Francis Drake, separates the man from the myth, and describes his voyages
Book Synopsis A Spaniard in Elizabethan England by : Gustav Ungerer
Download or read book A Spaniard in Elizabethan England written by Gustav Ungerer and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 1974 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antonio Perez, the brilliant but erratic secretary to Philip II of Spain, became in the years of his exile a political agent in the service of the Earl of Essex, arriving at the Court of Queen Elizabeth in 1593. On behalf of Essex, who valued him as a friend, a partner and a humanist scholar, he cast an intelligence network over Italy; and he made a striking, though dangerous, contribution to the Essex cult.
Book Synopsis The Discoverers by : Daniel J. Boorstin
Download or read book The Discoverers written by Daniel J. Boorstin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1985-02-12 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way. Covering time, the earth and the seas, nature and society, he gathers and analyzes stories of the man's profound quest to understand his world and the cosmos.
Book Synopsis The Invincible Armada and Elizabethan England by : Garrett Mattingly
Download or read book The Invincible Armada and Elizabethan England written by Garrett Mattingly and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis British Maritime Enterprise in the New World by : Peter T. Bradley
Download or read book British Maritime Enterprise in the New World written by Peter T. Bradley and published by Peter Bradley. This book was released on 1999 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a survey of the voyages of English navigators, from the pioneers of the late 15th century to the scientific expeditions of the early 19th century, not only in South American waters, but also the Caribbean and North America.
Book Synopsis Voyages of Discovery by : Lynne Withey
Download or read book Voyages of Discovery written by Lynne Withey and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-01-18 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makes use of recent scholarship in such disciplines as history, anthropology, art history, and literary criticism to place Captain James Cook in the broader context of Pacific exploration.
Book Synopsis The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake by : Samuel Bawlf
Download or read book The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake written by Samuel Bawlf and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 26, 1580, Francis Drake sailed his ship, the Golden Hinde, into Plymouth Harbor on the southwest coast of England. Samuel Bawlf masterfully recounts the drama of this extraordinary expedition within the context of England's struggle to withstand the aggression of Catholic Europe and Drake's ambition for English enterprise in the Pacific. He offers fascinating insight into life at sea in the sixteenth century-from the dangers of mutiny and the lack of knowledge about wind and current to the arduous physical challenges faced every day by Drake's men. A cast of luminous characters runs through The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: Philip II of Spain, Europe's most powerful monarch; Elizabeth's spymaster and powerful advisor, Francis Walsingham; the encyclopedic cosmographer John Dee; and Abraham Ortelius, the great Dutch mapmaker to whom Drake leaked his Pacific discoveries. In the end, though, it is Francis Drake himself who comes most fully to life through the lens of his epic voyage. Remembered most as a privateer and for his victory over the Spanish Armada, the Drake that emerges from these pages is so much more: a dynamic leader of men, a brilliant navigator and sailor, and surely one of history's most daring explorers.
Download or read book Tropics Bound written by James Seay Dean and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, and long awaited, we have the view from the gun deck of the wide world that opened to the Elizabethans on the Spanish Main and among the islands of the Caribbean. The tang of salt air stings the story. So does fearsome reality, the diseases and storms that wreaked havoc on sailors and ships alike and, more often than not, ruined the ambitions of many a financier. With the seapower of Imperial Spain still dominant, England’s private adventurers could “singe the beards” of the haughty Spaniards but wherever possible still evaded Iberian naval firepower and the dreaded Inquisition. Tropics Bound, rich in documentary research, reveals in triumph and failure the lives of privateers who deserve to be remembered – of wealth acquired, of health forsaken, and of risks so often surprisingly achieved.’
Book Synopsis Masters of Warfare by : Eric G. L. Pinzelli
Download or read book Masters of Warfare written by Eric G. L. Pinzelli and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-12-02 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Masters of Warfare, Eric G. L. Pinzelli presents a selection of fifty commanders whose military achievements, skill or historical impact he believes to be underrated by modern opinion. He specifically does not include the household names (the "Gods of War" as he calls them) such as Alexander, Julius Caesar, Wellington, Napoléon, Rommel or Patton that have been covered in countless biographies. Those chosen come from every period of recorded military history from the sixth century BC to the Vietnam War. The selection rectifies the European/US bias of many such surveys with Asian entries such as Bai Qi (Chinese), Attila (Hunnic), Subotai (Mongol), Ieyasu Tokugawa (Japanese) and Võ Nguyên Giáp (Vietnamese). Naval commanders are also represented by the likes of Khayr al-Din Barbarossa, Francis Drake and Michiel de Ruyter. These 50 "Masters of War" are presented in a chronological order easy to follow, with a concise overview of their life and career. Altogether they present a fascinating survey of the developments and continuities in the art of command, but most importantly their contribution to the evolution of weaponry, tactic and strategy through the ages.
Download or read book Sir Francis Drake written by John Sugden and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How well do you know the life of one of Britain’s great maritime heroes? Discover the truth behind a man who remains a legendary figure of history more than four hundred years after his death. Sir Francis Drake’s career is one of the most colourful on record. The most daring of the corsairs who raided the West Indies and Spanish Main, he led the English into the Pacific, and cirumnavigated the world to bring home the Golden Hind laden with Spanish treasure. His attacks on Spanish cities and ships transformed his private war into a struggle for surivival between Protestant England and Catholic Spain, in which he became Elizabeth I's most prominent admiral and marked the emergence of England as major maritime nation. ‘Excellent...It deserves to become the standard Drake life. His scholarship is impeccable’ Frank McLynn, Sunday Telegraph
Book Synopsis A Short History of British Expansion by : James Alexander Williamson
Download or read book A Short History of British Expansion written by James Alexander Williamson and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1922 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sea Power written by E. B Potter and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work covering over 2,000 years of naval history, from Greek and Roman galley warfare to Vietnam.
Book Synopsis A Jesuit Challenge by : Saint Edmund Campion
Download or read book A Jesuit Challenge written by Saint Edmund Campion and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 1581, after four days of debating six leading Anglican divines at the Tower of London, Jesuit Edmund Campion (1540-1581) was put to death because he would not deny his faith. In 1970, the martyred Campion was canonized a saint. A Jesuit Challenge is a book-length edition of previously unpublished Catholic manuscript accounts of those debates.. "As corrective historical documents, these Catholic manuscripts reveal a quite different picture of Campion and his opponents from that represented in the government's published version, and thus offer us a fuller and more balanced understanding of what actually took place. In addition to their historical value, the Catholic manuscripts also include lively exchanges between Campion and his opponents, and provide humanizing details about them. As personalized documents they capture the dramatic flavor of a series of spirited debates dealing with the major theological issues separating Protestant England from Catholic Rome in Elizabeth's reign.. "Together with a transcription of the Catholic manuscript accounts, Holleran supplies a general historical introduction to the debates, a detailed description of the manuscripts, brief supplementary commentaries about the debates, and a full set of explanatory notes.
Book Synopsis Voices of Shakespeare's England by : John A. Wagner
Download or read book Voices of Shakespeare's England written by John A. Wagner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices of Shakespeare's England offers students and public library patrons over 50 primary documents that illuminate the character, personalities, and events of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. Voices of Shakespeare's England: Contemporary Accounts of Elizabethan Daily Life helps readers explore the era that produced, among other things, the world's greatest playwright. It brings together excerpts from over 50 primary documents written in William Shakespeare's lifetime, including letters, literature, speeches and polemics, official reports, and descriptive narratives. Voices of Shakespeare's England includes the works of Shakespeare himself, as well as other poets and playwrights, but it also expands beyond the literary world to cover politics, religion, economics, social change, and the royal court. By allowing Shakespeare's contemporaries to speak in their own voices, it offers an illuminating look at the breadth of Elizabethan society, including major historic events in England as well as Scotland, Ireland, the European continent, and even the new world of America.
Book Synopsis The Voyages and Colonising Enterprises of Sir Humphrey Gilbert by : David Beers Quinn
Download or read book The Voyages and Colonising Enterprises of Sir Humphrey Gilbert written by David Beers Quinn and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
