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Louis B. Wright
Colonial Search For A Southern Eden [PDF ebook]

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European imperialists began to dream of other kinds of wealth besides gold in the New World Louis Booker Wright was a graduate of Wofford College, and was at various times a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and a Benjamin Franklin Medalist, and he held honorary degrees from, among others, Princeton, Tulane, and California State University-Fulerton. He was the author of a number of books, including The Atlantic Frontier: Colonial American Civilization 1607-1763, Gold, Glory, and the Gospel: the Adventurous Lives of the Renaissance Explorers, Culture on the Moving Frontier, and The Dream of Prosperity in Colonial America. At the time of the preparation of this work he was Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

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Limba Engleză ● Format PDF ● ISBN 9780817382360 ● Editura University of Alabama Press ● Publicat 2011 ● Descărcabil 3 ori ● Valută EUR ● ID 10025188 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM

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