Synopsis
The English Empire In America, By R.B Nathaniel Crouch The English Empire in America is a 17th-century compilation that surveys English claims and exploration in the New World through a sequence of historical sketches and itineraries. Beginning with reflections on the discovery of the New World and the preface praise of English dominion, the work proceeds to recount voyages, discoveries, and early settlements across a broad sweep of territories, including Newfoundland, New England, New York, Maryland, Virginia, and various Caribbean islands such as Barbadoes, Jamaica, Antigua, Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, and St. Vincent. It intertwines biographical notices of famous explorers (Columbus, Cabot, Cortés, Pizarro, Drake, Raleigh, Cavendish) with ethnographic descriptions of Indigenous peoples, their customs, rituals, and daily life as observed by English observers. The volume also catalogs flora, fauna, climates, and natural resources (gold, silver, furs, tobacco, sugar) to illustrate imperial potential and the economic imagination of the era. A polemical, imperial panorama, it reflects the attitudes and rhetoric of early English colonial literature.
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