| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 574 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 90 |
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McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 90.
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| Contents |
Opening the Work -- Remembering the North: Hakluyt's Medieval Materials -- Imagining the Arctic -- Encounters with the North -- The Levant and Beyond: Duration, Interruption, Repetition -- West Africa and Beyond: Into the Tropics -- Belligerent Materials: Sea Fights in the Atlantic -- The Relations of Strangers: Covering the Americas -- Voyages in Search of a Northwest Passage: Identities at High Latitudes -- Famous Voyages: The Caribbean and the Pacific |
| Summary |
"Around 1600, the English geographer and cleric Richard Hakluyt sought to honour his nation by publishing a compilation of every document he could find relating to its voyages and trade beyond the boundaries of Europe. The resulting collection of travel narratives, royal letters, ships' logs, maps, lists, and commentaries was published as Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Spanning two thousand pages and documenting more than two hundred voyages, Principal Navigations is a window onto how the world appeared to England in 1600. Lines Drawn across the Globe unlocks Richard Hakluyt's work for modern readers. Mary Fuller traces the history of the book's compilation and gives order and meaning to its famously diverse contents. From Sierra Leone to Iceland, from Spanish narratives of New Mexico to French accounts of the Saint Lawrence and Portuguese accounts of China, Hakluyt's shaping of this many-authored book provides a conceptual map of the world's regions and of England's real and imagined relations to them: exchange, alliance, aggression, extraction, translation, imitation--always depending on the needs of the moment. At the height of the British imperial project, Principal Navigations came to be seen and valued as a founding document of English national identity. It remains a crucial piece of evidence on the history of empire, the nation, and the world. Yet after a century and a half of modern scholarship, Hakluyt's book needs to be disentangled from the perspectives of the nineteenth century and read anew. Lines Drawn across the Globe works across the scales of Hakluyt's collection to deliver a dazzling account of an editorial project that was seminal to England's encounter with the world--and the nation's idea of itself."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 28, 2023) |
| Subject |
Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616.
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Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616 |
| SUBJECT |
Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80112684
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Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation fast |
| Subject |
Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800
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Discoveries in geography -- English
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HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries.
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Discoveries in geography -- English
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Voyages and travels
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| Genre/Form |
Early works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780228018414 |
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0228018412 |
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