English and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon 1550-1646
Hakluyt Society (Verlag)
978-0-904180-27-5 (ISBN)
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During the first half of the seventeenth century English and Irish made persistent efforts to maintain trading factories and plantations on the Amazon, often making very considerable profits from tobacco, dyes and hardwood; the Irish were renowned for their experience of the river and expertise in Indian languages. The failure, ultimately, of these undertakings, was due to foreign policy priorities of the English crown, rather than to an inhospitable environment.
Joyce Lorimer
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.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.1.1999 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Hakluyt Society Second Series |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Südamerika | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-904180-27-1 / 0904180271 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-904180-27-5 / 9780904180275 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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