The Westward enterprise
Subtitle: English activities in Ireland, the Atlantic, and America, 1480-1650
By: edited by K. R. Andrews, N. P. Canny, and P. E. H. Hair.
Contributors: Andrews, Kenneth R.; Canny, Nicholas P.; Hair, P. E. H.; Quinn, David B.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Quinn, David B; British -- Ireland -- History -- 16th century; British -- Ireland -- History -- 17th century; America -- Discovery and exploration -- English; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 16th century; Great Britain -- Territorial expansion; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Notes: "The essays in this volume are offered ... in tribute to D. B. Quinn to mark his retirement in 1976 from the Andrew Geddes and John Rankin Chair of Modern History at the University of Liverpool."
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Parry, J. H. Introduction: the English in the New World.; title: Canny, N. The permissive frontier: social control in English settlements in Ireland and Virginia, 1550-1650.; title: Bottigheimer, K. S. Kingdom and colony: Ireland in the westward enterprise, 1536-1660.; title: Bradshaw, B. Native reaction to the westward enterprise: a case-study in Gaelic ideology.; title: McGrath, P. Bristol and America, 1480-1631.; title: Andrews, K. R. The English in the Caribbean, 1560-1620.; title: Lorimer, J. The English contraband tobacco trade from Trinidad and Guiana, 1590-1617.; title: Shammas, C. English commercial development and American colonization, 1560-1620.; title: Pennington, L. E. The Amerindian in English promotional literature, 1575-1625.; title: Hulton, P. Images of the New World: Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues and John White.; title: Billings, W. M. The transfer of English law to Virginia, 1606-50.; title: Parker, J. Religion and the Virginia colony, 1609-10.; title: Dunn, R. S. Experiments holy and unholy, 1630-1.; title: Kearney, H. The problem of perspective in the history of colonial America.; title: Hair, P. E. H. and Quinn, A. M. The writings of D. B. Quinn.