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British Travellers and the Encounter with Britain, 1450-1700
John Cramsie
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Description for British Travellers and the Encounter with Britain, 1450-1700
Hardback. Encounters with a 'multicultural' Britain in the Tudor and Stuart periods written with an eye to debates about immigration and ethnicity in today's Britain. Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History. Num Pages: 564 pages, 26 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 242 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1076.
This book recovers the encounter with a multicultural Britain by British travellers in the Tudor and Stuart periods. When William Camden, writing in the sixteenth century, set out to write the history of Britannia, he deliberately took to the roads to discover it first-hand, and those diverse cultures guided and informed his journeys. Here, John Cramsie offers original perspectives on Camden's multicultural Britain through the study of British travellers and their narratives. We meet characters such as the Tudor traveller John Leland, who intended to tell the peoples of England and Wales about themselves; chronicle how they came ... Read more
This book recovers the encounter with a multicultural Britain by British travellers in the Tudor and Stuart periods. When William Camden, writing in the sixteenth century, set out to write the history of Britannia, he deliberately took to the roads to discover it first-hand, and those diverse cultures guided and informed his journeys. Here, John Cramsie offers original perspectives on Camden's multicultural Britain through the study of British travellers and their narratives. We meet characters such as the Tudor traveller John Leland, who intended to tell the peoples of England and Wales about themselves; chronicle how they came ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
564
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783270538
SKU
V9781783270538
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Ref
99-50
About John Cramsie
John Cramsie received his PhD from the University of St Andrews and is now Assistant Professor of British and Irish History at Union College in Schenectady, New York.
Reviews for British Travellers and the Encounter with Britain, 1450-1700
A valuable compendium of source material. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT A dense, well-researched work that explores the idea of a multicultural Tudor and Stuart Britain ... Cramsie's work is a welcome challenge to British scholars to recognize - and not suppress - the multilayered sense of cultural complexity and identity experienced by ... Read more