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In the year 1589 Richard Hakluyt, the first historian of English overseas expansion, published a famous book entitled The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation. He began, in suitably chauvinistic fashion, as follows:
[Just] as in all former ages, [the English] have been men full of activity, stirrers abroad and searchers of the remote part of the world, so in this most famous and peerless government of her most excellent Majesty [Queen Elizabeth I], her subjects … in searching the most opposite corners and quarters of the world … have excelled all the nations and people of the earth.1
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J.J. Murray, Antwerp in the Age of Plantin and Breughel (Newton Abbot, 1972); J.H. Parry, The Age of Reconnaissance. Discovery, Exploration and Settlement 1450–1650 (London, 1973); D.B. Quinn, England and the Discovery of America 1481–1620 (New York, 1974); G.V. Scammell, The World Encompassed. The First European Maritime Empires c. 800–1650 (London, 1981); E.G.R. Taylor, The Haven-Finding Art. A History of Navigation from Odysseus to Captain Cook (London, 1956); D. O’Sullivan, The Age of Discovery 1400–1550 (London, 1984).
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Parker, G. (1985). Europe and the Wider World. In: Smith, L.M. (eds) The Making of Britain. The Making of Britain. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17669-4_13
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