Mapping Principal Navigations in the Levant

Emily Laura Stevenson

doi:10.1080/14780038.2022.2056284

Mapping Principal Navigations in the Levant

Emily Laura Stevenson

English and Related Literature

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Abstract

Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations is a seminal work in the historical narrative of English exploration and colonisation, but not an unbiased one. By comparing social network maps of the contemporary Anglo-Levant community with textual analysis of Principal Navigations, this article will demonstrate the ways in which editorial practices reinforced Hakluyt’s personal biases in the text’s portrayal of the Levant and eastern Mediterranean, how this bias has resonated in the following centuries to colour conceptions of the late sixteenth century English-Levant relationship, and suggest avenues for the study of unexplored perspectives on this history.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	353-370
Number of pages	18
Journal	Cultural and Social History: the Journal of the Social History Society
Volume	19
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2022.2056284
Publication status	Published - 11 Apr 2022

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