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Amazons, savages, and machiavels : travel and colonial writing in English, 1550-1630 an anthology
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Amazons, savages, and machiavels : travel and colonial writing in English, 1550-1630 an anthology / Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield.
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9780191914430
9780198871552
Edition
Second edition.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]
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1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations (colour).
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Previously issued in print: 2001.
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Summary
The second edition of Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels is significantly revised and expanded, twenty years after the first edition helped to establish the field of travel and colonial writing in English. The anthology includes substantial new chapters of extracts on 'The North', detailing the important Arctic voyages and the search for the elusive North-West Passage to China; 'Islamic West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean' includes new material on Persia, Russia, and Jerusalem; 'England from Elsewhere' includes observations of England and the English from European travellers; and an epilogue on women travellers explores the importance in particular of Lady Catherine Whetenhall's journey to Italy, recorded after her early death. The chapter on Africa includes new material on the Congo, Gambia, and Sierra Leone, and the chapter on East Asia and the South Seas contains new material on China and Japan. There are new images of West African figures and Sir Anthony and Lady Sherley in Persian courtly attire. The introduction has been carefully revised to take into account the wealth of scholarship on English perceptions of Asia and the Mediterranean, and the analysis of race and racial identity has been expanded in line with contemporary concerns. Headnotes and notes have been revised and expanded throughout the text. The anthology is the most comprehensive single-volume available in English, and, with its newly modernized text and reader-friendly apparatus, is designed to appeal to the general as well as the specialist reader. No one interested in the history of travel, colonial writing, and racial politics at the time of the first British Empire can ignore this work.
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Print version: Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels : travel and colonial writing in English, 1550-1630 an anthology. Second edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Note on the Text
General Introduction
1. Motives For Travel And Instructions To Travellers
Introduction
Roger Ascham, The Schoolmaster (1570)
Francis Bacon, Letter from Thomas Bodley (c.1579) and 'Of Travel' (1612)
Thomas Coryat, Prefatory Material to Coryat's Crudities (1611)
Richard Eden, The Decades of the New World, or West India (1555), 'The Preface to the Reader'
Richard Hakluyt the younger, Prefatory Material to The Principal Navigations (1589, 1598)
Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrims (1625), 'Epistle to the Reader' and On Solomon's Navy
2. Europe
Introduction
Sir Robert Dallington, The View of France (1604)
Thomas Coryat, Coryat's Crudities (1611), Observations of Venice, Germany, and Switzerland
The Return of Master William Harborne from Constantinople over land to London, 1
Sir Charles Somerset, Travel Diary (1611-12), Observations of Paris and Florence
Fynes Moryson, An Itinerary (1617), Observations of Italy and Ireland
William Lithgow, The Total Discourse of The Rare Adventures (1632), Account of his Imprisonment in Spain
3. The North
Introduction
George Abbot, A Brief Description of the Whole World (1599)
Fynes Moryson, An Itinerary (1617), Observations of Denmark: Copenhagen and Elsinore
Giles Fletcher the elder, The history of Russia (1591), Description of Russia
George Best, A True Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discovery (1578), On the Discovery of Meta Incognita
Sir George Peckham, 'A true report of the late discoveries . . . of the Newfound Lands' (1583)
John Davis, On the Inuit of Greenland (1586)
4. Africa
Introduction
Sebastian Munster, A treatise of the new India, trans. Richard Eden (1553), The Islands of East Africa
'The Voyage Made by M. John Hawkins . . . to the coast of Guinea, and the Indies of Nova Hispania' (1564)
Richard Madox, Diary (1582), Observations of Sierra Leone
Duarte Lopes, A Report of the Kingdom of the Congo (1597), Description of the Congo and Southern Africa
Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, The History and Description of Africa, trans. John Pory (1600), Comments on North Africans
George Sandys, A Relation of a Journey Begun . . . 1610 (1615), Observations of the Egyptians
Richard Jobson, The Golden Trade: or the Discovery of the River Gambra (1623)
5. Islamic West Asia and The Eastern Mediterranean.
Introduction
Anthony Jenkinson, Kazan to the Caspian Sea and the Tatar Peoples (1558)
Thomas Dallam, Diary (1599-1600), Journey through the Eastern Mediterranean to Istanbul
Anthony Sherley, Sir Anthony Sherley: his Relation of his Travels into Persia (1613), Persian Statecraft and Religion
Fynes Moryson, An Itinerary (1617), Observations of the Ottoman Empire
George Sandys, A Relation of a Journey Begun . . . 1610 (1615), Observations of the Jews of Ottoman Palestine
Henry Timberlake, A True and Strange Discourse on the Travailes of Two English Pilgrims (1603), Description of Ottoman Jerusalem
William Lithgow, The Total Discourse of The Rare Adventures (1632), Comments on Jerusalem
6. East Asia And The South Seas
Introduction
Francis Petty, 'The admirable and prosperous voyage of . . . Thomas Cavendish . . . into the South Sea, and from thence round about the circumference of the whole earth' (1586-8), Observations of the South Sea Islanders
'A Letter of Father Diego De Pantoia . . . written [from] the Court of the King of China' (9 March 1602)
Sir Henry Middleton, Two Accounts of his Voyage to the Moluccas (1604-6)
Two Accounts of Japan: Arthur Hatch (1623) and John Saris (1613)
Edward Terry, A Voyage to East India (1616-19), Account of the Mughal Court
William Adams, Logbook (1614-19), Journey to Cochin China and Tonkin
Peter Mundy, The Travels of Peter Mundy in Asia (1628-34), Observations of India
7. The Americas
Introduction
Richard Eden, The Decades of the New World, or West India (1555), Three Descriptions of Indigenous Americans
Bartolomé de Las Casas, A briefe narration of the destruction of the Indies by the Spaniards, trans. M. M. S. (1583)
Thomas Harriot, A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588, 1590)
Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana (1596)
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 'Of the Cannibals' (1580), trans. John Florio (1603)
William Strachey, The History of Travel into Virginia Britania (1612)
Captain John Smith, The General History of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), The Story of Pocahontas
8. England From Elsewhere
Introduction
Nicander Nucius, 'Travels' (1546), Relation of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Étienne Perlin, 'Description of England' (1553?)
Thomas Platter, Diary (1599), Journey from Calais to London
Emmanuel van Meteren, 'Description of the English' (c.1612)
Epilogue: Women Travellers
Introduction
'The Voyage of Lady Catherine Whetenhall from Brussels into Italy' (1649-50)
Guide to Further Reading
Index.
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