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Humanism and America : an intellectual history of English colonisation, 1500-1625 /
Humanism and America is the first major study of the impact of Renaissance humanism upon the English colonisation of America. Andrew Fitzmaurice conducts his analysis through an interdisciplinary examination of a broad spectrum of writings, ranging from the works of Thomas More to those of the Virgi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge : New York :
UK ; Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Ideas in context ;
67. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 The moral philosophy of Tudor colonisation; CHAPTER 3 The moral philosophy of Jacobean colonisation; CHAPTER 4 Rhetoric
- 'not the Words, but the Acts'; CHAPTER 5 Law and history; CHAPTER 6 The Machiavellian argument for colonial possession; CHAPTER 7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.