| America in European Consciousness, 1493-1750 Contributor(s): Kupperman, Karen Ordahl (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0807845108 ISBN-13: 9780807845103 Publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North C OUR PRICE: $52.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 1995 Annotation: This book of eleven essays from leading scholars in the fields of intellectual and cultural history reverses that trend by focusing on the ways in which contact with the Americas transformed European thought. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | North American - History | United States - General - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 970 |
| LCCN: 94-5725 |
| Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo |
| Physical Information: 1.17" H x 6.16" W x 9.2" (1.51 lbs) 448 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's first transatlantic voyage has provoked an outpouring of scholarship on how European exploration and colonization affected America. This book of eleven essays from leading scholars in the fields of intellectual and cultural history reverses that trend by focusing on the ways in which contact with the Americas transformed European thought. The result of an international conference sponsored by the John Carter Brown Library, this collection addresses the impact of Spanish, French, and English experiences in the New World. The essays consider whether and how knowledge of America changed the mental world of European thinkers as reflected in their understanding of history, literature, linguistics, religion, and the sciences. In assessing the process by which Europeans sought to understand America, this volume responds to issues raised by Sir John Elliott nearly a generation ago, and the collection concludes with an essay in which Elliott reflects on the scholarship of the last twenty-five years on this subject. The contributors are David Armitage, Peter Burke, Luca Codignola, J. H. Elliott, Christian Feest, Roland Greene, John M. Headley, Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Henry Lowood, Sabine MacCormack, David Quint, and Richard C. Simmons. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kupperman, Karen Ordahl: - Karen Ordahl Kupperman is professor of history at the University of Connecticut. Her books include Providence Island, 1630-1641: The Other Puritan Colony and Captain John Smith: A Select Edition of His Writings. |