Walter Ralegh : architect of empire /
Sir 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...
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Toward an empire
- Annoying the king of Spain : blueprints, legalities, and baby steps
- Ralegh and the Second Desmond War
- "A man noted of not good happ by sea:" Humphrey Gilbert prepares to colonize America
- The case for genocide : George Peckham visualizes colonization
- The courtier
- The cult of Elizabeth
- Planting a New World colony
- Summer of discontent
- Singeing the Spaniard's beard
- A briefe and true report
- Publicizing Ralegh's Virginia
- Fire and smoke : the Hermeticists' Indians
- Planning the Munster plantation
- Bloodlines : Captain Ralegh and the Desmonds
- Ralegh in Youghal
- Preparing the plantation : establishing authority
- Resistance to plantation
- Ralegh's colonists
- The plantation economy
- Of friendship, marriage, and goddesses
- A courtier's disgrace and the shipping of staves
- The search for El Dorado
- The discovery of Guiana
- The benevolent empire
- Wheel of fortune
- Reincarnation : Ireland and the course of colonialism
- Treasons
- The great cordial
- Prince Henry
- History of the world
- "He called to the headman to shew him the ax."