What Are We Doing Here? Scenarios for Early English Colonies in North America
What Are We Doing Here? Scenarios for Early English Colonies in North America
This chapter shows that early travellers' accounts of America were no mere exercises in rhapsodizing over New World plenty, but, on the contrary, involved hard-headed assessments of the colonies' commercial potential and the granting of charters reflected the jockeying among the European imperial powers.
Keywords: travel writing, travellers, America, New Work, colonies
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