A New World for a new nation: The promotion of America in early modern England
In the 1580s, almost a century after Christopher Columbus first set foot in the New World, England could not make any substantial claims to the rich territories there. Less than a century later, England had not only founded an overseas empire but had also managed to challenge her most powerful rival...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2002
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Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3039339 |