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Tudor Imperialism: Exploration, Expansion, and Experimentation in the Sixteenth-Century British Atlantic World

出版	Georgetown University-Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, History, 2013
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1mvxngEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋In six substantive chapters, I reperiodize the sixteenth century, weaving together national, European, imperial, and Atlantic contexts, rather than focusing on the ebbs of the monarchy or religion alone. Using a wide array of interdisciplinary sources--including state papers, parliamentary, shipping, and court records, private correspondence, political philosophy, travel narratives, and material culture--and methods, this dissertation draws on material from six locations of imperial enterprise, chosen for their diversity in geography, chronology, type (from military occupation to settlement to trading company to commercial entrepôt), and limited scholarly treatment. It privileges these early, uneven, oft-overlooked enterprises in France (Tournai), Scotland, Ireland, Newfoundland, Virginia (Roanoke), and Guiana to find a flurry of highly significant, related, extra-territorial efforts on the part of the British and Irish marked by a mix of continuity, borrowing, and change. As such, this project challenges the insularity of traditional domestic Tudor historiography as well as the chronological and geographical constraints of imperial and early modern histories and integrates an Atlantic approach--the first to link these scholarly endeavors. It seeks to create a dialogue among new British, imperial, and Atlantic fields and help reframe British history, integrating the processes of nation-, empire-, and identity-building and breaking down the divides and boundaries between subfields and analytical topics in early modern scholarship.