| Walter Ralegh Lib/E: Architect of Empire Contributor(s): Gallay, Alan (Author), Hodgson, Paul (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1549128809 ISBN-13: 9781549128806 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $111.59 Product Type: Compact Disc Published: January 2020 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Adventurers & Explorers - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | Europe - Great Britain - Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Cultural Region - Latin America - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
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| Publisher Description: From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a biography of the famed poet, courtier, and colonizer, showing how he laid the foundations of the English EmpireSir Walter Ralegh was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth. She showered him with estates and political appointments. He envisioned her becoming empress of a universal empire. She gave him the opportunity to lead the way. In Walter Ralegh, Alan Gallay shows that, while Ralegh may be best known for founding the failed Roanoke colony, his historical importance vastly exceeds that enterprise. Inspired by the mystical religious philosophy of hermeticism, Ralegh led English attempts to colonize in North America, South America, and Ireland. He believed that the answer to English fears of national decline resided overseas -- and that colonialism could be achieved without conquest. Gallay reveals how Ralegh launched the English Empire and an era of colonization that shaped Western history for centuries after his death |
Contributor Bio(s): Gallay, Alan: - Alan Gallay is the Lyndon B. Johnson chair of United States history at Texas Christian University and the author of several books, including The Indian Slave Trade, which won the Bancroft Prize. Gallay lives in Fort Worth, Texas. |