The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation
Author: Richard Hakluyt
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 461
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Author: Richard Hakluyt
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 461
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Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2015-02-26
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13: 0141398523
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Their fruits be diverse and plentiful, as nutmegs, ginger, long pepper, lemons, cucumbers, cocos, sago, with divers other sorts...' Scholar, spy, diplomat and supreme propagandist for Elizabethan sea power, Richard Hakluyt's accounts of famed explorers mythologised a nation growing rapidly aware of the size and strangeness of the world - and determined to dominate it. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Richard Hakluyt (c 1552-1616). Hakluyt's Voyages and Discoveries is available in Penguin Classics.
Author: Richard Hakluyt
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 312
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 618
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Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 2020-09-28
Total Pages: 5386
ISBN-13: 1613108540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry S. Turner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016-06-17
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 022636335X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt a time when the standing and status of corporations is much in the news, this study of the early modern history of the concept of the corporation is particularly timely. Henry S. Turner provides a new account of early modern political institutions and political concepts by turning to the history of the corporation as a type of notional person and as a way of organizing collective life. Universities, guilds, towns and cities, religious confraternities, joint-stock companies: all were legal corporations, and all enjoyed rights and freedoms that sometimes exceeded the authority of the State. Drawing on the resources of economic and colonial history, literary criticism, law, political philosophy, and the history of science, Turner reads works by Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Hobbes, among many others, to find the resources for a new account of corporations as fictional bodies and persons endowed with identities, rights, and the capacity for action. Turner tackles a number of fascinating questions: How did early modern writers make sense of the paradoxical essence of the corporationa collectivity at once imaginary and material, coherent but unbounded, many and at the same time one? And what can the history of the corporation tell us about the history of our own moment, when public goods are increasingly privatized and citizens seek new models of association and meaningful political action? His answers will be of compelling interest to historians, political theorists, literary scholars, and others."
Author: Richard Hakluyt
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Published: 1927
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alec Wilkinson
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2013-01-08
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0307741869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1897, at the height of the heroic age of Arctic exploration, the visionary Swedish explorer S. A. Andrée made a revolutionary attempt to discover the North Pole by flying over it in a hydrogen balloon. Thirty-three years later, his expedition diaries and papers would be discovered on the ice. Alec Wilkinson uses the explorer’s papers and contemporary sources to tell the full story of this ambitious voyage, while also showing how the late 19th century’s spirit of exploration and scientific discovery drove over 1,000 explorers to the unforgiving Arctic landscape. Suspenseful and haunting, Wilkinson captures Andrée’s remarkable adventure and illuminates the detail, beauty, and devastating conditions of traveling and dwelling on the ice.
Author: Richard Hakluyt
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Published: 1877
Total Pages: 338
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 324
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