This collection of documents gives twenty-first century readers a glimpse of the time when the possibility of colonizing North America was anything but certain. Pamphlets, accounts, and engravings from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century capture the process of English colonization from its origins in promotional propaganda to its realization on the shores of North America.
Language
English
Pages
182
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bedford/St. Martin's
Release
March 15, 1995
ISBN
0312096704
ISBN 13
9780312096700
Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization of North America, 1580-1640
This collection of documents gives twenty-first century readers a glimpse of the time when the possibility of colonizing North America was anything but certain. Pamphlets, accounts, and engravings from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century capture the process of English colonization from its origins in promotional propaganda to its realization on the shores of North America.