Humanism and America
An Intellectual History of English Colonisation, 1500 1625
Humanism and America provides a major study of the impact of the Renaissance and Renaissance humanism upon the English colonization of America. The analysis is conducted through an interdisciplinary examination of a broad spectrum of writings on colonization, ranging from the works of Thomas More to those of the Virginia Company. Andrew Fitzmaurice shows that English expansion was profoundly neo-classical in inspiration, and he excavates the distinctively humanist tradition that informed some central issues of colonization: the motivations of wealth and profit, honour and glory; the nature of and possibilities for liberty; and the problems of…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-521-82225-1
- EAN: 9780521822251
- Produktnummer: 1688405
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 236 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.8 cm 521 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 521
Über den Autor
Andrew Fitzmaurice was formerly a Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, and is currently a Lecturer in History at Sydney University. This is his first book.
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