English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century

Froude, James Anthony

Elizabethan Voyages, Privateering, and the Tudor Sea War Against Spain

10,00 €

ISBN: 9788027379057

Breite: 15,2 cm

Höhe: 22,9 cm

Gewicht: 153 g

Produktinformationen "English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century"

English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century distills Froude's long engagement with Tudor history into a spirited account of England's maritime awakening: the voyages of Hawkins, Drake, Frobisher, and Raleigh; the slave-trading and privateering ventures that shadowed exploration; and the climactic confrontation with Catholic Spain. Written in vigorous Victorian prose, the book blends narrative history, patriotic epic, and moral essay. Its literary context is the late-nineteenth-century fascination with empire and national origins, yet it also preserves the dramatic tensions of Reformation Europe, where seamanship, commerce, religion, and violence were inseparable. James Anthony Froude (1818-1894), historian, essayist, and sometime Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, was shaped by the religious controversies of his age and by the influence of Carlyle's heroic view of history. His monumental History of England had already made the Tudor period his intellectual territory. In this later work, his Protestant sympathies, suspicion of Spanish absolutism, and belief in energetic national character help explain both the book's brilliance and its biases. Readers seeking a neutral archival monograph should proceed critically; readers wanting a powerful Victorian interpretation of England's seafaring identity will find it rewarding. The book remains valuable for its narrative force, historical imagination, and insight into how the Elizabethan sailors became symbols of modern Britain.

Eigenschaften "English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century"

Format:	Taschenbuch / Softcover
Thema/BIC:	Geschichte der Seefahrt
Verlag:	e-artnow

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