Inventing Virginia: Sir Walter Raleigh and the Rhetoric of Colonization, 1584-1590

by Michael G. Moran

In 1584 Walter Raleigh received a patent from Queen Elizabeth to settle an English colony on Roanoke Island, on the Outer Banks of present-day North Carolina, soon to be named Virginia. Within the next few years, he sent a reconnaissance voyage and two actual colonies (both of which failed) to explore and settle the region. To support his colonization efforts, Raleigh assembled a group of communication experts who wrote reports and produced ethnographic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820486949
• ISBN13: 9780820486949
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 261 Pages