New World Encounters
Title | New World Encounters PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Greenblatt |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520080201 |
The five centuries which have passed since the discovery of the New World have not diminished the overwhelming importance or strangeness of the early encounter between Europeans and native Americans. This collection of essays offers a multidisciplinary approach to this meeting of cultures.
European Encounters with the New World
Title | European Encounters with the New World PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Pagden |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1993-01-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780300059502 |
For review see: J.W. Schulte Nordholt, in Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, jrg. 107, nr. 4 (1994); p. 591-592.
New World Encounters
Title | New World Encounters PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Greenblatt |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 1993-03-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520080218 |
The five centuries which have passed since the discovery of the New World have not diminished the overwhelming importance or strangeness of the early encounter between Europeans and native Americans. This collection of essays offers a multidisciplinary approach to this meeting of cultures.
Encounters in the New World
Title | Encounters in the New World PDF eBook |
Author | Mirela Altic |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 2022-07-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022679105X |
The history and concept of Jesuit mapmaking -- The possessions of the Spanish crown -- The viceroyalty of Peru -- Portuguese possessions: Brazil -- New France: searching for the Northwest Passage.
Encounters in the New World
Title | Encounters in the New World PDF eBook |
Author | Associate Professor of History and American Studies Jill Lepore |
Publisher | Turtleback |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 2002-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780613573566 |
Jill Lepore, winner of the distinguished Bancroft Prize for history, brings to life in exciting, first-person detail some of the earliest events in American history. Pages From History.
Encounters at the Heart of the World
Title | Encounters at the Heart of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth A. Fenn |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 518 |
Release | 2014-03-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0374711070 |
Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1804-1805 with them, but why don't we know more? Who were they really? In this extraordinary book, Elizabeth A. Fenn retrieves their history by piecing together important new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology, and nutritional science. Her boldly original interpretation of these diverse research findings offers us a new perspective on early American history, a new interpretation of the American past. By 1500, more than twelve thousand Mandans were established on the northern Plains, and their commercial prowess, agricultural skills, and reputation for hospitality became famous. Recent archaeological discoveries show how these Native American people thrived, and then how they collapsed. The damage wrought by imported diseases like smallpox and the havoc caused by the arrival of horses and steamboats were tragic for the Mandans, yet, as Fenn makes clear, their sense of themselves as a people with distinctive traditions endured. A riveting account of Mandan history, landscapes, and people, Fenn's narrative is enriched and enlivened not only by science and research but by her own encounters at the heart of the world.
Colonial Encounters in New World Writing, 1500-1786
Title | Colonial Encounters in New World Writing, 1500-1786 PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Castillo |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2006-05-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134374895 |
Exploring the proliferation of polyphonic texts following the first contact between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the Americas, this book is an important advance in the study of early American literature and writings of colonial encounter.