Documentary History Of The State Of Maine (Volume Ii) Containing A Discourse On Western Planting Written In The Year 1584
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
22.03.2021
Herausgeber
Richard HakluytVerlag
Alpha EditionsSeitenzahl
328
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/1,9 cm
Gewicht
534 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-93-5450-281-1
Before Maine had a name, English pens were already mapping its future. Ambition, ink, and coastline collide. Documentary History of the State of Maine (Volume II) is a historical document collection built around Richard Hakluyt's 1584 western planting discourse, surrounded by colonial-era primary sources that press a single question: how does a distant shore become a settlement? Read it as an early American history anthology and as Elizabethan exploration literature: vivid in intent, blunt in economics, alive with conviction. Hakluyt, the great organiser of voyage literature, writes with the urgency of a nation racing rivals. The result is more than Maine material: it is a guide to rhetoric, appetite, and power at the start of English expansion in the New World. Hakluyt's argument for 16th century colonization lays bare English colonization propaganda at work - not mere travel writing, but strategy designed to persuade investors, courtiers, and the crown. Alongside it, the volume preserves New England exploration accounts that deepen Maine colonial history and illuminate the Atlantic world that fed projects such as Roanoke. For readers drawn to Roanoke colonization studies, it captures the mindset before footholds became colonies; for family historians, its documentary grain supports genealogy and local history; for students and historians, it remains an academic research reference where phrasing, priorities, and silences matter. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.
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