English and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon, 1550-1646 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Lorimer, Professor Joyce

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

From as early as the middle of the 16th century Englishmen were interested in the possibility of exploring the fabled resources of the great river of the Amazons. During the first half of the 17th century English and Irish projectors made persistent effor

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 514
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781409433613
• Artikelnr.: 42880840

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Introduction
Introductions and Texts: Earliest English explorations of the Amazon, 1553-1608
The first English and Irish settlements on the Amazon, 1611-20
The formation and collapse of the Amazon Company, 1619-1621
The abandoned English and Irish colonists, 1620--25: first struggles with the Portuguese
The creation of the Guiana Company, 1626-27
The 'old' Irish planters go out to the Amazon for the Dutch West India Company, 1629
The difficulties of the Guiana Company's new colony, 1628-31
The last English settlements on the Amazon, 1630-33
The Irish petition the Spanish crown for a licence to settle the Amazon, 1631-36
Last English and Irish efforts to return to the Amazon, 1638-46: approaches to the restored Portuguese monarchy
Conclusion
References
Index.