Keeping (i)

Christopher Tomlins

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511778575.005

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Discourses of Intrusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012

Christopher Tomlins

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University of California, Berkeley

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As the light accompanieth the Sunne and the heate the fire, so lasting riches do wait upon them that are jealous for the advancement of the Kingdom of Christ, and the enlargement of his glorious Gospell.

Richard Hakluyt (the younger), Preface to Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582)

The Sun arises in the East,
Cloth’d in robes of blood and gold;
Swords and spears and wrath increas’d
All around his bosom roll’d,
Crown’d with warlike fires and raging desires.
William Blake, Poems from the Rossetti Manuscript, I (c. 1793)

European colonizers began refining their plans for the New World virtually from the moment of Columbian landfall. Conventionally the English are absent from this story, latecomers by better than ninety years. English Atlantic voyaging goes largely unnoticed before the 1580s, when “the horizons of English leaders, merchants, intellectuals, and adventurers began to broaden” and attempts to create mainland outposts commenced in earnest. Continuous landed settlement dates only from 1607; English presence is not secured for the better part of two decades.

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Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865
, pp. 93 - 132

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511778575.005 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2010

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