Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583–1671

Most scholars of Anglo-American colonial history have treated colonialism either as an exclusively American phenomenon or, conversely, as a European one. Colonial Writing and the New World 1583–1671 argues for a reading of the colonial period that attempts to render an account of both the European o...

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Main Author: Scanlan, Thomas J.
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Published: Cambridge University Press 1999
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algonquin
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511583018
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