The Invention of Colonialism
Richard Hakluyt and Medieval Travel Writing
Series: Elements in Travel Writing;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 24 July 2025
- ISBN 9781009644099
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages78 pages
- Size 229x152x6 mm
- Weight 249 g
- Language English 673
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Short description:
This Element brings together intellectual history, the rise of the British Empire, and medieval and early modern literature.
MoreLong description:
This Element argues that it was not just the application of medieval texts by Richard Hakluyt that made them relevant for England's budding colonial ideology; rather, it shows that these premodern texts already conveyed the essence of the expansionist mercantilism and colonialist imperialism that would characterise early English exceptionalism and the Elizabethan reach for the Americas. The upshot of the author's argument is threefold. First, Hakluyt and his contemporaries were much better and closer readers of medieval travel texts than we give them credit for; second, the ideology behind English colonialism was shaped in the late medieval period, not in Elizabethan England; and third, another facet of periodisation, with its epistemological emphasis on rupture rather than continuity, comes under pressure.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction: England's Sphere of Influence; 1. Mandeville's Hegemonic Gaze and Hakluyt's Multi-text; 2. A Blueprint for Colonialism: The Discourse Concerning Western Planting (1584) and The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye (1436); 3. Edgar's Archipelago Revisited: Hakluyt, John Dee, and the Four Seas of Britain; Afterword: The Ends of Edgar's Archipelago; References.
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