Michael G. Moran

Inventing Virginia

Sir Walter Raleigh and the Rhetoric of Colonization, 1584-1590

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In 1584 Walter Raleigh received a patent from Queen Elizabeth to settle an English colony on Roanoke Island, on the Outer Banks of present-day North Carolina, soon to be named Virginia. Within the next few years, he sent a reconnaissance voyage and two actual colonies (both of which failed) to explore and settle the region. To support his colonization efforts, Raleigh assembled a group of communication experts who wrote reports and produced ethnographic drawings of the people and maps of the region to interest potential investors and colonists in the project. Inventing Virginia is the first book to thoroughly explore the communication strateg… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8204-8694-9
EAN: 9780820486949
Produktnummer: 19040041
Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Seitenangabe: 261 S.
Masse: H16.2 cm x B23.6 cm x D2.0 cm 588 g
Abbildungen: Illustrations, maps
Gewicht: 588
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

The Author: Michael G. Moran received his B.A. in psychology from City College of New York and his M.A. in literature and his Ph.D. in eighteenth-century British literature from the University of New Mexico. An Associate Professor, he teaches English at the University of Georgia.