Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire
Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire
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Overview
Sir Walter Ralegh was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth. She showered him with estates and political appointments. He envisioned her becoming empress of a universal empire. She gave him the opportunity to lead the way.
In Walter Ralegh,Alan Gallay shows that, while Ralegh may be best known for founding the failed Roanoke colony, his historical importance vastly exceeds that enterprise. Inspired by the mystical religious philosophy of hermeticism, Ralegh led English attempts to colonize in North America, South America, and Ireland. He believed that the answer to English fears of national decline resided overseas and that colonialism could be achieved without conquest. Gallay reveals how Ralegh launched the English Empire and an era of colonization that shaped Western history for centuries after his death.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781549128806 |
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Publisher: | Hachette Book Group |
Publication date: | 11/19/2019 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 1.50(h) x 5.00(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
List of illustrations xi
Note to Reader xiii
The Inventory 1
Part 1 "Thei saw the heddes of theyre dedde fathers": The Foundations of English Colonialism
Chapter 1 Toward an Empire 11
Chapter 2 Annoying the King of Spain: Blueprints, Legalities, and Baby Steps 26
Chapter 3 Ralegh and the Second Desmond War 37
Part 2 Catholics, Morris Dancers, and Genocide: How to Colonize America
Chapter 4 "a man noted of not good happ by sea": Humphrey Gilbert Prepares to Colonize America 51
Chapter 5 The Case for Genocide: George Peckham Visualizes Colonization 66
Part 3 "especiall grace, certeyne science and meere mocyon": Mysticism and the Empress of English Colonialism
Chapter 6 The Courtier 81
Chapter 7 The Cult of Elizabeth 97
Part 4"The land itself would wage war on them": The Roanoke Adventure
Chapter 8 Planting a New World Colony 117
Chapter 9 Summer of Discontent 133
Chapter 10 Singeing the Spaniard's Beard 143
Part 5 "a brave new world, That has such people in't": Roanoke as Cultural Production
Chapter 11 A Briefe and True Report 167
Chapter 12 Publicizing Ralegh's Virginia 184
Chapter 13 Fire and Smoke: The Hermeticists' Indians 199
Part 6 Fictions of Colonization: "Re-peopling" Munster
Chapter 14 Planning the Munster Plantation 223
Chapter 15 Bloodlines: Captain Ralegh and the Desmonds 238
Chapter 16 Ralegh in Youghal 248
Part 7 Our right existed as long as "the memory of man runneth": Settlement and Resistance on the Ralegh Seignories
Chapter 17 Preparing the Plantation: Establishing Authority 269
Chapter 18 Resistance to Plantation 279
Chapter 19 Ralegh's Colonists 290
Part 8 Colonization as an Economic Enterprise
Chapter 20 The Plantation Economy 303
Chapter 21 Of Friendship, Marriage, and Goddesses 317
Chapter 22 A Courtier's Disgrace and the Shipping of Staves 328
Part 9 The Colonial Impulse: Search, Discovery, Redemption
Chapter 23 The Search for El Dorado 339
Chapter 24 The Discovery of Guiana 347
Chapter 25 The Benevolent Empire 363
Chapter 26 Wheel of Fortune 374
Chapter 27 Reincarnation: Ireland and the Course of Colonialism 389
Part 10 "The arte of Magicke is the arte of worshipping God": Colonialism as a History of the World and Universe
Chapter 28 Treasons 411
Chapter 29 The Great Cordial 430
Chapter 30 Prince Henry 441
Chapter 31 History of the World 447
Chapter 32 "He called to the Headman to shew him the Ax" 459
Acknowledgments 477
Notes 481
Index 529