Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 428 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Introduction: the changing definition of America / Karen Ordahl Kupperman -- pt. 1. America and the historical imagination: America and the rewriting of world history / Peter Burke -- The new world and British historical thought: from Richard Hakluyt to William Robertson / David Armitage -- pt. 2. America reflected in Europe: Limits of understanding: perceptions of Greco-Roman and Amerindian paganism in early modern Europe / Sabine MacCormack -- Petrarchism among the discourses of imperialism / Roland Greene -- A reconsideration of Montaigne's Des cannibales / David Quint -- pt. 3. America and European aspirations: The Holy See and the conversion of the Indians in French and British North America, 1486-1760 / Luca Codignola -- Campanella, America, and world Evangelization / John M. Headley -- The beehive as a model for colonial design / Karen Ordahl Kupperman -- pt. 4. America and the scholarly impulse: The new world and the European catalog of nature / Henry Lowood -- The collecting of American Indian artifacts in Europe, 1493-1750 / Christian F. Feest -- Americana in British books, 1621-1760 / Richard C. Simmons -- pt. 5. Conclusion: Final reflections: the old world and the new revisited / J.H. Elliott |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
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Print version record |
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Public opinion -- Europe -- History
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Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- History
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HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
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HISTORY -- North America.
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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Collectors and collecting
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Historiography
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Public opinion
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Public opinion, European
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Beeldvorming.
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Culturele invloeden.
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SUBJECT |
America -- Foreign public opinion, European -- History
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America -- Historiography
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Europe -- Colonies -- America
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America -- History -- To 1810.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004264
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America
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Europe
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Kupperman, Karen Ordahl, 1939-
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Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
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ISBN |
9781469611389 |
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1469611384 |
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