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Amazons, Savages, & Machiavels
Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550-1630: An Anthology

Edited by Andrew Hadfield

Price: £69.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-871187-2
Publication date: 20 September 2001
336 pages, 17 halftones, 234x156 mm

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  • Makes available extracts from all the major travel writings of the period, arranged by geographical area and with accessible introductions and explanatory annotation.
  • Ideal for students. No other such anthology exists.
  • Texts are lightly modernized, and many contain original illustrations.
A broad-based and accessible anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, ranging from the Americas to the Far East, from Ireland to Russia, and selected to represent the world-picture of 16th and 17th century readers in England. The editor provides a substantial introduction and headnotes to give students essential information and alert them to debates and discussions.

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Edited by Andrew Hadfield, Professor of English, University of Wales at Aberystwyth


Links to web resources and related information
More in the same subject area:
Classic travel writing
Literature: history & criticism
World history: c 1500 to c 1750
Social & cultural anthropology

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