عالم ذهبي: كيف غيّرت الأمريكتان إنجلترا في عصر النهضة

From rumors of lost cities of gold in the Amazon to silver mines streaming through the mountains of Bolivia, hopes of extreme wealth fueled the imperial fantasies of the Tudors and Stuarts. But while stories of treasure ships and pirates like Walter Raleigh were embedded in national mythology, what did Elizabethans really know about Mexico, the Amazon rainforest, or the Chesapeake Bay? How did Aboriginal knowledge, arts, costumes and literature enter Shakespeare's time, and what price did they pay? _A Golden World_ highlights how the Americas became a tangible and visible presence in English culture, through a range of unexpected things: from tobacco leaves scattered in playhouses to a boy wearing a pearl earring. Award-winning historian Lorraine Working presents a brand-new history of sixteenth-century England's "Golden Age," examining the yearnings for power, land, and resources in the early era of colonialism, along with the ingenuity and efforts of those who contributed to the English Renaissance as we know it today in the Americas.