Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 499 pages) : maps |
Series |
Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, 0072-9396 ; 2nd ser., no. 171 |
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Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 171. 0072-9396
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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 |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Subject |
British -- Brazil -- History
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Irish -- Brazil -- History
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
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British
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Discoveries in geography
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Irish
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Ansiedlung
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Quelle
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Siedlung
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Briten
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Engländer
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Engelsen.
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Ieren.
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Nederzettingen.
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Irlandais -- Amazone (cours d'eau ; vallée de l') -- histoire -- 17e siècle.
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Anglais -- Brésil -- Histoire.
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Britanniques -- Amazone (cours d'eau ; vallée de l') -- histoire -- 16e siècle.
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Britanniques -- Amazone (cours d'eau ; vallée de l') -- histoire -- 17e siècle.
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Irlandais -- Amazone (cours d'eau ; vallée de l') -- histoire -- 16e siècle.
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SUBJECT |
Amazon River Valley -- Discovery and exploration
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Brazil -- Discovery and exploration
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Amazon River Valley
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Brazil
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Amazonas
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Amazonastiefland
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England
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Bröthen Hoyerswerda
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Brésil -- Découverte et exploration britanniques.
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Amazonie -- Découverte et exploration britanniques.
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Engländer.
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Lorimer, Joyce
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Hakluyt Society
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ISBN |
9781409433613 |
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1409433617 |
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9781315579702 |
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1315579707 |
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9781317143239 |
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131714323X |
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9781317143222 |
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1317143221 |
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