Foreword Preface PART ONE: Introduction: English Promotion and Settlement of the Americas Early European Settlements in the Western Hemisphere Early Influences on English Colonization Efforts The English Colonization of Ireland Domestic Influences on Early English Plans for Colonizing North America The Emergence of English America, 1588-1620 The Expansion of English Colonization, 1620-1640 PART TWO: The Documents 1. Richard Hakluyt (the elder), Inducements to the Liking of the Voyage Intended towards Virginia in 40. and 42. Degrees, 1585 2. Richard Hakluyt (the younger), Discourse of Western Planting, 1584 3. George Peckham, A True Reporte of the Late Discoveries . by . Sir Humphrey Gilbert, 1583 4.
Thomas Harriot, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, 1590 Illustration section: Selections from Theodore de Brys engravings of John Whites True Pictures and Fashions of the People in That Parte of America Now Called Virginia, 1585 5. Sir Walter Ralegh, Of the Voyage for Guiana, 1596? 6. George Percy, A Discourse of the Plantation of the Southern Colonie in Virginia, 1606-1607 7. Anonymous, A True Declaration of the Estate of the Colonie in Virginia (Issued by the Virginia Company), 1610 8. John Winthrop, Reasons to Be Considered for Justifying the Undertakers of the Intended Plantation in New England and for Encouraging Such Whose Hearts God Shall Move to Join with Them in It, 1629 9. Ferdinando Gorges, A briefe Relation of the Discovery and Plantation of New England, 1622 10. William Wood, New Englands Prospect, 1634 APPENDIXES A Chronology of Exploration and Colonization in the Americas (1000-1637) Questions for Consideration Selected Bibliography Index.