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Decentring the Renaissance : Canada and Europe in Multidisciplinary Perspective 1500-1700 /

In 1497, explorers from the confident world of Renaissance Europe sailed, under Captain Giovanni Caboto, into what are now Canadian waters. This significant encounter brought into contact two worlds equally ignorant of each other and set in motion a number of events that culminated in the birth of a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Podruchny, Carolyn, Warkentin, Germaine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Polarities, hybridities: what strategies for decentring? / Natalie Zemon Davis
  • Inclusive and exclusive perceptions of difference: native and Euro-based concepts of time, history, and change / Deborah Doxtator
  • Plunder or harmony?: On merging European and native views of early contact / Toby Morantz
  • Memoria as the place of fabrication of the New World / Gilles Therien
  • The sixteenth-century French vision of empire: the other side of self-determination / Olive Patricia Dickason
  • The mentality of the men behind sixteenth-century Spanish voyages to Terranova / Selma Huxley Barkham
  • Relocating Terra Firma: William Vaughn's Newfoundland / Anne Lake Prescott
  • Images of English origins in Newfoundland and Roanoke / Mary C. Fuller
  • From the good savage to the degenerate Indian: the Amerindian in the accounts of travel to America / Real Ouellet with Mylene Tremblay
  • Few, uncooperative, and ill informed?: The Roman Catholic clergy in French and British North America, 1610-1658 / Luca Codignola
  • Canada in seventeenth-century Jesuit thought: backwater or opportunity? / Peter A. Goddard
  • 'A new Loreto in New France': Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot, SJ, and the Holy House of Loreto / Andre Sanfac̦on
  • The delights of nature in this New World: a seventeenth-century Canadian view of the environment / Lynn Berry
  • The beginning of French exploration out of the St. Lawrence Valley: motives, methods, and changing attitudes towards native people / Conrad E. Heidenreich
  • The earliest European encounters with Iroquoian languages / Wallace Chafe
  • Decentring icons of history: exploring the archaeology of the Frobisher voyages and early European-Inuit contact / Reginald Auger [and others]
  • Sir William Phips and the decentring of empire in Northeastern North America, 1690-1694 / Emerson W. Baker and John G. Reid
  • Amerindians and the horizon of modernity / Denys Delâge and Jean-Philippe Warren.