‘‘The Marvelous Priviledge of British Impire’’: Elizabethan Colonial Expectations and Realities

• Main Author: Klingelhöfer, Eric
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Paris : Editions du CTHS 2011
• Subjects: hist; litt; Baffin Island; Dee; Raleigh; Trinidad; Baffin; Newfoundland; Terre-Neuve
• Online Access: https://www.persee.fr/doc/acths_1764-7355_2011_act_133_3_1959

All Elizabethan colonies were failures, but that fact alone is of little benefit in trying to understand how England eventually did expand overseas. Even if a new generation enjoyed more beneficial geopolitics after the Spanish peace of 1604, what previous mistakes were the English then able to over...