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Humanism and America, an intellectual history of English colonisation, 1500-1625, Andrew Fitzmaurice

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Humanism and America, an intellectual history of English colonisation, 1500-1625, Andrew Fitzmaurice

Language

eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Humanism and America

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electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

70736733

Responsibility statement

Andrew Fitzmaurice

Series statement

Ideas in context, 67Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

an intellectual history of English colonisation, 1500-1625

Summary

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 just title, including the dispossession of native Americans. Dr Fitzmaurice presents a colonial tradition which, counter to received wisdom, is often hostile to profit, nervous of dispossession and desirous of liberty. Only in the final chapters does he chart the rise of an aggressive, acquisitive and possessive colonial ideology.--, Provided by publisher

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Humanism & America

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