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Willoughbyland
ISBN-13:
9781448185252
Veröffentl:
2015
Seiten:
304
Autor:
Matthew Parker
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
At the beginning of the 1650s, England was in ruins - wrecked, impoverished, grief-stricken by plague and civil war. Yet shimmering on the horizon was an intoxicating possibility, a vision of paradise: Willoughbyland.Ambitious and free-thinking adventurers poured in, attracted by the toleration, the optimism, the rich soil and the promise of the gold of El Dorado. It was England's most hopeful colony. But the Restoration saw the end of political freedom, and brought in its place spies, war, rebellion and treachery. The advent of racial slavery poisoned everything. What started out as a heaven was soon to become one of the cruellest places on earth.The history of Willoughbyland is a microcosm of empire, its heady attractions and fatal dangers.
I: Foreword: Suriname River, 2014 One: 'Every Man's Longing' Two: El Dorado Three: Ralegh and the 'Beautiful Empire of Guiana' Four: The Heirs of Ralegh Five: Ralegh's Last Voyage Six: Francis Lord Willoughby Seven: 'A Brave Land' Eight: 'A Peculiar Form of Government' Nine: The Restoration: 'A Tumbling and Rolling World' Ten: Repression and Revolt Eleven: Aphra Behn, Agent 160 Twelve: Sugar, Slavery and Oroonoko Thirteen: The Return of Willoughby Fourteen: War and Ruin Fifteen: Astrea and Celadon Sixteen: The Fall of Fort Willoughby Seventeen: Victory and Anguish II: Postscript III: Acknowledgements IV: List of Illustrations V: Source Notes VI: Select Bibliography of Printed Sources VII: Index
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