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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 new nation. The Renaissance, ordinarily thought of as an entirely European-centred phenomenon is 'de-centred' in these eighteen innovative essays. They explore not only how the European Renaissance helped form Canada, but also how more significantly the experience of Canada touched the Renaissance and those who first came to the shores of North America.
Representing a range of disciplines, including literature, anthropology, biology, history, linguistics, and anthropology, this work re-thinks traditional notions of Canada and of the Renaissance. The essays examine both the interaction between the two worlds as well as the ways that this interaction has traditionally been interpreted. As distinct from the rapid transformation of South and Central America, the focus is on the slower northern experience, questioning the European monopoly on history, politics, and science, as well as the misrepresentation of Canada's Aboriginal peoples. Originally presented at a 1996 conference at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, these essays provide a wealth of new information and a variety of new perspectives on the collision of the Old World with the New.
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Carolyn Podruchny is an assistant professor in the Department of History at York University. Germaine Warkentin is a professor emeritus of the Department of English at Victoria College, University of Toronto.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Sehr gut. Auflage: Illustrated. 387 Seiten Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). Frisches und sauberes Exemplar in gutem Zustand. Contents: 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 Sanfac?on -- 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 Dela^ge and Jean-Philippe Warren. ISBN 9780802081490 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 540. Seller Inventory # 1202751
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