Americana from the Time of the Discovery
Author | : William H. Robinson, London |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1928 |
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Author | : William H. Robinson, London |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1928 |
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Author | : William H. Robinson, Ltd |
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Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : William H. Robinson, Ltd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Antiquarian booksellers |
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Author | : Joseph Sabin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : Edward John Payne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : William Robertson |
Publisher | : London : Jones & Company |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1826 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : Elizabeth Horodowich |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2018-09-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108687245 |
Few Renaissance Venetians saw the New World with their own eyes. As the print capital of early modern Europe, however, Venice developed a unique relationship to the Americas. Venetian editors, mapmakers, translators, writers, and cosmographers represented the New World at times as a place that the city's mariners had discovered before the Spanish, a world linked to Marco Polo's China, or another version of Venice, especially in the case of Tenochtitlan. Elizabeth Horodowich explores these various and distinctive modes of imagining the New World, including Venetian rhetorics of 'firstness', similitude, othering, comparison, and simultaneity generated through forms of textual and visual pastiche that linked the wider world to the Venetian lagoon. These wide-ranging stances allowed Venetians to argue for their different but equivalent participation in the Age of Encounters. Whereas historians have traditionally focused on the Spanish conquest and colonization of the New World, and the Dutch and English mapping of it, they have ignored the wide circulation of Venetian Americana. Horodowich demonstrates how with their printed texts and maps, Venetian newsmongers embraced a fertile tension between the distant and the close. In doing so, they played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.
Author | : John Fiske |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Frederick Converse Beach |
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Total Pages | : 860 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Author | : John Fiske |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2018-07-02 |
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ISBN | : 9781722164133 |
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 by John Fiske The present work is the outcome of two lines of study pursued, with more or less interruption from other studies, for about thirty years. It will be observed that the book has two themes, as different in character as the themes for voice and piano in Schubert's "Frühlingsglaube," and yet so closely related that the one is needful for an adequate comprehension of the other. In order to view in their true perspective the series of events comprised in the Discovery of America, one needs to form a mental picture of that strange world of savagery and barbarism to which civilized Europeans were for the first time introduced in the course of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, in their voyages along the African coast, into the Indian and Pacific oceans, and across the Atlantic. Nothing that Europeans discovered during that stirring period was so remarkable as these antique phases of human society, the mere existence of which had scarcely been suspected, and the real character of which it has been left for the present generation to begin to understand. Nowhere was this ancient society so full of instructive lessons as in aboriginal America, which had pursued its own course of development, cut off and isolated from the Old World, for probably more than fifty thousand years. The imperishable interest of those episodes in the Discovery of America known as the conquests of Mexico and Peru consists chiefly in the glimpses they afford us of this primitive world. It was not an uninhabited continent that the Spaniards found, and in order to comprehend the course of events it is necessary to know something about those social features that formed a large part of the burden of the letters of Columbus and Vespucius, and excited even more intense and general interest in Europe than the purely geographical questions suggested by the voyages of those great sailors. The descriptions of ancient America, therefore, which form a kind of background to the present work, need no apology. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.