Privateering and Colonization in the Reign of Elizabeth I: Raleigh in Exeter 1985

by Joyce Youings (Editor)

Overview

Privateering, ship design, English society, the lost colonists, the drawing of John White, and the adoption of Sir Walter Raleigh as an American folk hero are among the topics covered in this volume. Illustrated.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780859892520
Publisher:	University of Exeter Press
Publication date:	06/01/1985
Series:	Exeter Studies in History , #10
Pages:	132
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

Joyce Youings was Emeritus Professor of History in the University of Exeter and was well known as a specialist in Tudor history and as an editor of Tudor documents.

Table of Contents

List of figures and plates Introduction - Joyce Youings Elizabethan Privateering - Kenneth R. Andrews The Three-Masted Ship and Atlantic Voyages - Ian Friel Did Raleigh's England Need Colonies? - Joyce Youings The Lost Colonists - David Beers Quinn The Americanization of Raleigh - H. G. Jones The Raleighs, Father and Son i. Walter Raleigh - Michael Stanford ii. Enigma Variations: Raleigh, the Man and His Age - Maurice W. Turner John White and his Drawings of Raleigh's Virginia - Paul Hulton