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A major study of the impact of Renaissance humanism upon the English colonization of America.Read More

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    Humanism and America is the first major study of the impact of Renaissance humanism upon the English colonisation of America. Hitherto accounts of early American colonisation, and of European colonisation in general, have placed great emphasis upon the links between colonisation and modernity: these claims have been made both by historians and by literary scholars. By contrast Andrew Fitzmaurice shows that English expansion was profoundly neo-classical in its inspiration, and that humanist traditions were enormously influential in the early development of the American colonies: more aggressive agendas only followed later.

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    Andrew Fitzmaurice reveals that English expansion was profoundly neo-classical in its inspiration, and that humanist traditions were extremely influential in the early development of the American colonies. Until now, accounts of early American colonization, and of European colonization in general, have placed great emphasis upon the links between colonization and the aggressive agendas of modern times claimed by historians and literary scholars.

  • 0521822254
  • 9780521822251
  • Andrew Fitzmaurice
  • 27 February 2003
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 236
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