THE PROMOTION OF SCOTTISH COLONIZATION OF AMERICA IN THE TREATISES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

Laskova Natalia Vasilyevna1, Magakov Gennady Yuryevich1
1Southern Federal University Institute of History and International relations, Ph. D. in History, Assistant Professor of the Foreign history and International relations department

Abstract
The article is sanctified to the events related to the initial period of Scottish penetration toNorth America. Comparative description of insufficiently known standards of literary genre of the XVII century is presented - treatises, propagandizing advantages of all types of participating in colonial projects. Works by Scottish pioneers of colonization William Alexander and Robert Gordon are presented as important sources for the study of the early history of Nova Scotia.

Keywords: colonization of North America, colony, New Scotland, Scotland, treatise, William Alexander


Category: 07.00.00 History

Article reference:
The promotion of Scottish colonization of America in the treatises of the seventeenth century // Modern scientific researches and innovations. 2015. № 4. P. 3 [Electronic journal]. URL: https://web.snauka.ru/en/issues/2015/04/52497

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