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Humanism and America is the first major study of the impact of the Renaissance and renaissance humanism upon the English colonisation of America. The analysis is conducted through an interdisciplinary examination of a broad spectrum of writings on colonisation, ranging from the works of Thomas More to those of the Virginia Company. Andrew Fitzmaurice shows that English expansion was profoundly neo-classical in inspiration, and he excavates the distinctively humanist tradition that informed some central issues of colonisation: the motivations of wealth and profit, honour and glory; the nature of and possibilities for liberty; and the problems of just title, including the dispossession of native Americans. Dr Fitzmaurice presents a colonial tradition which, counter to received wisdom, is often hostile to profit, nervous of dispossession and desirous of liberty. Only in the final chapters does he chart the rise of an aggressive, acquisitive and possessive colonial ideology.
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Title of ebook: Humanism and America
ISBN: 9780511055645
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Internet download file size: 1591 kb
Pages: 234
Released online for download: 02-26-1999
Author of eBook: Fitzmaurice, Andrew
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