[PDF] Walter Ralegh eBook

Author : Marc Aronson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780395848272

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Recounts the adventurous life of Ralegh the English explorer who led many expeditions to the new world.

Author : Alan Gallay
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,6 MB
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1541645782

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From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a biography of the famed poet, courtier, and colonizer, showing how he laid the foundations of the English Empire Sir Walter Ralegh was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth. She showered him with estates and political appointments. He envisioned her becoming empress of a universal empire. She gave him the opportunity to lead the way. In Walter Ralegh,Alan Gallay shows that, while Ralegh may be best known for founding the failed Roanoke colony, his historical importance vastly exceeds that enterprise. Inspired by the mystical religious philosophy of hermeticism, Ralegh led English attempts to colonize in North America, South America, and Ireland. He believed that the answer to English fears of national decline resided overseas -- and that colonialism could be achieved without conquest. Gallay reveals how Ralegh launched the English Empire and an era of colonization that shaped Western history for centuries after his death.

Author : Raleigh Trevelyan
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 35,64 MB
Release : 2004-01-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080507502X

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The result is the most immediate, detailed, and convincing portrait of one of the most compelling figures in English history."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Nicholas Popper
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 26,25 MB
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226675009

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Imprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent seven years producing his massive History of the World. Created with the aid of a library of more than five hundred books that he was allowed to keep in his quarters, this incredible work of English vernacular would become a best seller, with nearly twenty editions, abridgments, and continuations issued in the years that followed. Nicholas Popper uses Ralegh’s History as a touchstone in this lively exploration of the culture of history writing and historical thinking in the late Renaissance. From Popper we learn why early modern Europeans ascribed heightened value to the study of the past and how scholars and statesmen began to see historical expertise as not just a foundation for political practice and theory, but as a means of advancing their power in the courts and councils of contemporary Europe. The rise of historical scholarship during this period encouraged the circulation of its methods to other disciplines, transforming Europe’s intellectual—and political—regimes. More than a mere study of Ralegh’s History of the World, Popper’s book reveals how the methods that historians devised to illuminate the past structured the dynamics of early modernity in Europe and England.