Set Fair For Roanoke
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Set Fair For Roanoke
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Author : David Beers Quinn
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2017-10-10
Set Fair For Roanoke written by David Beers Quinn and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-10 with History categories.
Quinn's study brings together the results of his nearly fifty years of research on the voyages outfitted by Sir Walter Raleigh and the efforts to colonize Roanoke Island. It is a fascinating book, rich in details of the colonists' experiences in the New World. Quinn "solves" the mystery of the Lost Colony with the controversial conclusion that many of the colonists lived with the Powhatans until the first decade of the seventeenth century when they were massacred.
La Florida
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Author : Kevin Kokomoor
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2023-09-01
La Florida written by Kevin Kokomoor and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-01 with History categories.
La Florida explores a Spanish thread to early American history that is unfamiliar or even unknown to most Americans. As this book uncovers, it was Spanish influence, and not English, which drove America’s early history. By focusing on America’s Spanish heritage, this collection of stories complicates and sometimes challenges how Americans view their past, which author Kevin Kokomoor refers to as “the country’s founding mythology.” Dig deeper into Hispanic and Caribbean history, and how important happenings elsewhere in the Spanish colonial world influenced the discovery and colonization of the American Southeast. Follow Spanish sailors discovering the edges of a new continent and greedy, violent conquistadors quickly moving in to find riches, along with Catholic missionaries on their search for religious converts. Learn how Spanish colonialism in Florida sparked the British’s plans for colonization of the continent and influenced some of the most enduring traditions of the larger Southeast. The key history presented in the book will challenge the general assumption that whatever is important or interesting about this country is a product of its English past.
The Founding Of English America
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Author : John May
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2024-05-15
The Founding Of English America written by John May and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-15 with History categories.
In 1577, John Dee, a scientist who served as an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, proposed to her the creation of colonies in the New World. Neither Elizabeth nor Walter Raleigh imagined the task would be so difficult or take more than 30 years. The effort started with an exploration of the coast of today's North Carolina and the settlement of a colony on Roanoke Island in 1585. This ended tragically and became known as The Lost Colony, its fate a mystery to this day. James I resumed the effort with the founding of Jamestown in 1607 on an island in the James River in today's Virginia. This book relates the histories of the Roanoke and Jamestown colonies to enable a full understanding of the founding of English America. Important events in America's beginnings, including the wreck of the Sea Venture (which inspired William Shakespeare's The Tempest), the Algonquin chief Powhatan's plans to make the newcomers useful to him, and the relationship between Pocahontas and English Captain John Smith are highlighted.
A Kingdom Strange
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Author : James Horn
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2010-03-30
A Kingdom Strange written by James Horn and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-30 with History categories.
In 1587, John White and 117 men, women, and children landed off the coast of North Carolina on Roanoke Island, hoping to carve a colony from fearsome wilderness. A mere month later, facing quickly diminishing supplies and a fierce native population, White sailed back to England in desperation. He persuaded the wealthy Sir Walter Raleigh, the expedition's sponsor, to rescue the imperiled colonists, but by the time White returned with aid the colonists of Roanoke were nowhere to be found. He never saw his friends or family again. In this gripping account based on new archival material, colonial historian James Horn tells for the first time the complete story of what happened to the Roanoke colonists and their descendants. A compellingly original examination of one of the great unsolved mysteries of American history, A Kingdom Strange will be essential reading for anyone interested in our national origins.
Empire Imagined
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Author : Giselle Frances Donnelly
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2022-08-01
Empire Imagined written by Giselle Frances Donnelly and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-01 with History categories.
The origins of the United States' distinct approach to war and military power are found in the colonial experience. Long before 1776 or 1619, Englishmen understood themselves to be a part of a larger, lost "British" empire that might disappear forever in the globe-girdling shadow of the Spanish Hapsburgs and their drive to extirpate Protestantism. A combination of geopolitical ambition and fear of Philip II propelled Elizabethan expansion into North America. During the queen's five decades on the throne, the British imperial impulse jelled into a distinct and widely shared strategic culture, anchored in a deeply held faith and political ideology that legitimized Tudor rule; increasingly centralized Tudor power across England, Scotland, and Ireland; forced attention to the continental European balance of power; and drew adventurers to explore the world and claim a toehold in North America. In Empire Imagined, Giselle Frances Donnelly traces the development of these enduring habits through a series of vignettes that reveal the interaction of a maturing strategic consensus and the contingencies inevitable in international politics and offers a unique perspective for understanding the current debate about America's role in the world.
The Head In Edward Nugent S Hand
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Author : Michael Leroy Oberg
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2013-02-12
The Head In Edward Nugent S Hand written by Michael Leroy Oberg and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-12 with History categories.
Roanoke is part of the lore of early America, the colony that disappeared. Many Americans know of Sir Walter Ralegh's ill-fated expedition, but few know about the Algonquian peoples who were the island's inhabitants. The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand examines Ralegh's plan to create an English empire in the New World but also the attempts of native peoples to make sense of the newcomers who threatened to transform their world in frightening ways. Beginning his narrative well before Ralegh's arrival, Michael Leroy Oberg looks closely at the Indians who first encountered the colonists. The English intruded into a well-established Native American world at Roanoke, led by Wingina, the weroance, or leader, of the Algonquian peoples on the island. Oberg also pays close attention to how the weroance and his people understood the arrival of the English: we watch as Wingina's brother first boards Ralegh's ship, and we listen in as Wingina receives the report of its arrival. Driving the narrative is the leader's ultimate fate: Wingina is decapitated by one of Ralegh's men in the summer of 1586. When the story of Roanoke is recast in an effort to understand how and why an Algonquian weroance was murdered, and with what consequences, we arrive at a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of what happened during this, the dawn of English settlement in America.
Lethal Encounters
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Author : Alfred Cave
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2013-11-01
Lethal Encounters written by Alfred Cave and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-01 with History categories.
Originally published: Santa Barbara, California: Praeger, c2011.
The Lost Colony Of Roanoke
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Author : Brandon Fullam
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2017-03-23
The Lost Colony Of Roanoke written by Brandon Fullam and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-23 with History categories.
When Governor John White sailed for England from Roanoke Island in August 1587, he left behind more than 100 men, women and children. They were never seen again by Europeans. For more than four centuries the fate of the Roanoke colony has remained a mystery, despite the many attempts to construct a satisfactory, convincing explanation. New research suggests that all past and present theories are based upon a series of erroneous assumptions that have persisted for centuries. Through a close examination of the early accounts, previously unknown or unexamined documents, and native Algonquian oral tradition, this book deconstructs the traditional theories. What emerges is a fresh narrative of the ultimate fate of the Lost Colony.
Norfolk
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Author : Thomas C. Parramore
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2000-01-29
Norfolk written by Thomas C. Parramore and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-29 with History categories.
This is a history of Norfolk from the time of the first contact between a Spanish sailor and a native American Chiskiack in 1561, to the city's late 20th-century concerns, including pollution of Chesapeake Bay, urban development, traffic in illegal guns, and racial tensions.
Historical Dictionary Of The Elizabethan World
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Author : John A. Wagner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2000
Historical Dictionary Of The Elizabethan World written by John A. Wagner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with America categories.
Provides clear definitions and descriptions of people, events, institutions, ideas, and terminology relating in some significant way to the Elizabethan period. The first dictionary of history to focus on Elizabeth's reign.