Inventing Virginia: Sir Walter Raleigh and the Rhetoric of Colonization, 1584-1590

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In 1584 Walter Raleigh received a patent from Queen Elizabeth to settle an English colony on Roanoke Island, on the Outer Banks of present-day North Carolina, soon to be named Virginia. Within the next few years, he sent a reconnaissance voyage and two actual colonies (both of which failed) to explore and settle the region. To support his colonization efforts, Raleigh assembled a group of communication experts who wrote reports and produced ethnographic...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0820486949

ISBN13:9780820486949

Release Date:November 2006

Publisher:Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi

Length:261 Pages

Related Subjects

16th Century History Language Arts Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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Inventing Virginia: Sir Walter Raleigh and the Rhetoric of Colonization, 1584-1590

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