The Invention of Colonialism: Richard Hakluyt and Medieval Travel Writing

This Element argues that medieval texts conveyed the essence of expansionist mercantilism and colonialism, which shaped early English exceptionalism. The argument is threefold: Hakluyt and contemporaries understood medieval texts better than credited, colonialism's ideology shaped in the late medieval period, and periodisation faces pressure.

• | Author: Sebastian Sobecki
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 24, 2025
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781009338479
• | ISBN-10: 1009338471