Researching North America: Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s 1583 Expedition and a Reexamination of Early Modern English Colonization in the North Atlantic World

• Main Author: Probasco, Nathan
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2013
• Subjects: British Colonization; Atlantic World; History of Science; Cartography; European History; Technology; and Medicine; United States History; Dee; Levin; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/historydiss/56; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/historydiss/article/1056/viewcontent/PROBASCO_DISSERTATION_PDF.pdf

Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s 1583 expedition to North America was the first attempt by an Englishman to colonize beyond the British Isles, and yet it has not been subject to thorough scholarly analysis for more than seventy years. Although it is often overlooked or misinterpreted by scholars, an exhaustiv...