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Title English and Irish settlement on the River Amazon, 1550-1646 / edited by Joyce Lorimer
Published London : Hakluyt Society, 1989

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 499 pages) : maps
Series Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, 0072-9396 ; 2nd ser., no. 171
Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 171. 0072-9396
Contents Introductions and Texts: Earliest English explorations of the Amazon, 1553-1608 -- The first English and Irish settlements on the Amazon, 1611-20 -- The formation and collapse of the Amazon Company, 1619-21 -- The abandoned English and Irish colonists, 1620-5; first struggles with the Portuguese -- The creation of the Guiana Compnay, 1626-7 -- The 'Old' Irish planters go out to the Amazon for the Dutch West India Company, 1629 -- The difficulties of the Guiana Company's new colony, 1628-31 -- The last English settlements on the Amazon, 1630-3 -- The Irish petition the Spanish crown for a licence to settle the Amazon, 1631-6 -- Last English and Irish efforts to return to the Amazon: approaches to the restored Portuguese monarchy
Summary From as early as the middle of the sixteenth century Englishmen were interested in the possibility of exploring the fabled resources of the great river of the Amazons. During the first half of the seventeenth century English and Irish projectors made persistant efforts to maintain trading factories and plantation there. From at least 1612 to 1632 they inhabited settlements along the north channel of the estuary from Cabo do Norte to the Equator, making very considerable profits from tobacco, dyes and hardwoods. (Dust jacket)
Analysis Brazil Amazon River Basin Settlement by English immigrants & Irish immigrants, 1549-1822
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 460-470) and index
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Subject British -- Brazil -- History
Irish -- Brazil -- History
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
British
Discoveries in geography
Irish
Ansiedlung
Quelle
Siedlung
Briten
Engländer
Engelsen.
Ieren.
Nederzettingen.
Irlandais -- Amazone (cours d'eau ; vallée de l') -- histoire -- 17e siècle.
Anglais -- Brésil -- Histoire.
Britanniques -- Amazone (cours d'eau ; vallée de l') -- histoire -- 16e siècle.
Britanniques -- Amazone (cours d'eau ; vallée de l') -- histoire -- 17e siècle.
Irlandais -- Amazone (cours d'eau ; vallée de l') -- histoire -- 16e siècle.
SUBJECT Amazon River Valley -- Discovery and exploration
Brazil -- Discovery and exploration
Subject Amazon River Valley
Brazil
Amazonas
Amazonastiefland
England
Bröthen Hoyerswerda
Brésil -- Découverte et exploration britanniques.
Amazonie -- Découverte et exploration britanniques.
Engländer.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Lorimer, Joyce
Hakluyt Society
ISBN 9781409433613
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