Search Results for Walter Ralegh

... in a mutually constitutive Anglo-American discourse. First, the author traces how the practical exigencies posed by the anomalous form of English New World colonization that Walter Ralegh pursued, commodity plantation by private enterprise, provoked a conceptual and discursive shift in how knowledge was defined...

... studying UNCORRECTED PROOFS Afterword 395 northeastern South America, Walter Ralegh s Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana one that appreciates Ralegh s text for what it can tell us about Elizabethan England and its colonialist aspirations in America and another one...

... Science. Harriot pioneered new forms of empiricism in the context of Walter Ralegh s late sixteenth-century attempt to secure the vast capital necessary for a new form of colonization rooted in settlement rather than trade or mineral extraction. By attending to the economic sections of Harriot s Briefe...