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Representing the New World : the English and French uses of the example of Spain / Jonathan Hart.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) E141 .H37 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hart, Jonathan Locke, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spaniards.
- Historiography.
- Territorial expansion.
- History.
- Colonies.
- Colonization.
- America--Colonization--Historiography.
- America.
- America--Colonization--History--Sources.
- America--Early accounts to 1600--History and criticism.
- Spain--Colonies--America--Historiography.
- Spain.
- Spain--Foreign public opinion--History--Sources.
- Spain--Territorial expansion--Historiography.
- Imperialism--Historiography.
- Imperialism.
- Spaniards--America--Historiography.
- Travelers' writings, English.
- Travelers' writings, French.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 351 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.
- Summary:
- Jonathan Hart has three main goals in this text: to show the rhetorical complexity of texts of travel as well as the importance of their depictions for Spain, France, and England; to present the ambivalent and contradictory responses of France and England to Spain over the period; and to demonstrate the importance of translations in both disseminating and shaping knowledge surrounding the colonizing of the New World. By combining three major cultural traditions -- France, England, and Spain -- he reveals fascinating interactions between the way the New World was represented in writing, and he makes substantial contributions to our understanding of the political and social context of these writings. This allows significant reassessments of the early modern Atlantic world's perception of the Americas.
- Contents:
- 2. Establishing and Questioning Empire, 1492-1547 15
- 3. Uncertainty and Strife, 1548-1566 49
- 4. Facing the Greatness of Spain, 1567-1588 85
- 5. The Making of Permanent Colonies, 1589-1642 155
- 6. Rivaling and Succeeding Spain, 1643-1713 233.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-333) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0312230702
- OCLC:
- 46907727
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