Connecting Ireland and America: Early English Colonial Theory 1560-1620
Description:
This work demonstrates the connections that exist in rhetoric and planning between the Irish plantation projects in the Ards, Munster , Ulster and the Jamestown colony in Virginia . The planners of these projects focused on the creation of internal stability rather than the mission to 'civilize' the natives. The continuity between these projects is examined on several points: the rhetoric the English used to describe the native peoples and the lands to be colonized, who initiated each project, …
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Date:
May 2005
Creator:
Nelson, Robert Nicholas
Partner:
UNT Libraries