America in European Consciousness, 1493-1750

Name: America in European Consciousness, 1493-1750
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ISBN: 9780807845103

ISBN-10: 0807845108

ISBN-13: 9780807845103

Edition: 1995

Authors: Karen Ordahl Kupperman

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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…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/20/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.99" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Changing Definition of America




America and the Historical Imagination


America and the Rewriting of World History



The New World and British Historical Thought: From Richard Hakluyt to William Robertson




America Reflected in Europe


Limits of Understanding: Perceptions of Greco-Roman and Amerindian Paganism in Early Modern Europe



Petrarchism among the Discourses of Imperialism



A Reconsideration of Montaigne's Des cannibales




America and European Aspirations


The Holy See and the Conversion of the Indians in French and British North America, 1486-1760



Campanella, America, and World Evangelization



The Beehive as a Model for Colonial Design




America and the Scholarly Impulse


The New World and the European Catalog of Nature



The Collecting of American Indian Artifacts in Europe, 1493-1750



Americana in British Books, 1621-1760




Conclusion


Final Reflections: The Old World and the New Revisited



Conference Program


Contributors


Index