Islands of Settlement
North Atlantic islands played a key role in early English imperial expansion as critical sites of precedent and experimentation. From John Cabot’s first landing in 1497, Newfoundland gave England both a claim to America and a base for an enormously profitable fishery. Further south, and following it...
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Oxford University Press
2021
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198847229.003.0004 |