Discoverers, explorers, and colonists
Author | : Jeannette Rector Hodgdon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jeannette Rector Hodgdon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Wayne Franklin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1989-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226260720 |
"Send those on land that will show themselves diligent writers." So urged the "sailing instructions" prepared for explorer Henry Hudson. With distinctive command of the primary texts created by such "diligent writers" as Columbus, William Bradford, and Thomas Jefferson, Wayne Franklin describes how the New World was created from their new words. The long verbal discovery of America, he asserts, entailed both advance and retreat, sudden insights and blind insistence on old ways of seeing. The discoverers, explorers, and settlers depicted America in words—or via maps, tables, and landscape views—as a complex spatial and political entity, a place where ancient formula and current fact were inevitably at odds.
Author | : Jeannette Rector Hodgdon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Logan Allen |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803210158 |
The three volumes that will encompass North American Exploration appraise the full scope of the exploration of the North American continent and its oceanic margins from prior to the arrival of Columbus until the end of the nineteenth century. More than an assessment of historical events, these volumes portray the process of exploration. Without forgetting the romance of exploration, the authors recognize that exploration is a great deal more than the adventures themselves. All explorers are conditioned by the time, place, and circumstances of their efforts; these determine objectives, the behavior of explorers, and the consequences of their discoveries. In this first volume we follow the expansion of knowledge from the world of the pre-Columbian explorers through the end of the sixteenth century, with each topic addressed by an expert, and all fitting into a coherent whole. The volume is enhanced by a discussion of the geographical knowledge and beliefs of the native peoples of the North American continent, and how this knowledge influenced the efforts and understanding of the Europeans.
Author | : Richard E. Bohlander |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Over 300 entries, 50 maps, and 170 photographs.
Author | : Albert Bushnell Hart |
Publisher | : New York : American Book Company |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Russell Freedman |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780618663910 |
Discusses the possibility that America was discovered by someone other than Columbus.
Author | : Henry Howard Brownell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles R. Ewen |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2024-04-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476652457 |
Headlines declare after each new hint of evidence that the Lost Colony--the English colonists left on Roanoke Island in 1587, including Virginia Dare--has been found. None of these claims pass muster as the historical, archaeological, and literary evidence presented here demonstrate. This book analayzes several hypotheses and demonstrates why none have been shown to be more probable than any of the others. To understand how the 1587 colonists became The Lost Colony, the authors recount the history of the English expeditions in the 1580s and the original searches for the colonists from 1590 until the 1620s. The archaeological evidence gathered from the 19th through the 21st centuries is presented. The book then examines how the disappearance of the colonists has been portrayed in pseudoscience, fiction, and popular culture from the beginnings until the present day. In the end, readers will have all the data they need to judge new claims concerning the fate of The Lost Colony.