Decentring the Renaissance : Canada and Europe in multidisciplinary perspective, 1500-1700 / edited by Germaine Warkentin, Carolyn Podruchny.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Warkentin, Germaine.

Podruchny, Carolyn

Dr. Ada H. Lewis Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

Discoveries in geography.

Canada--Discovery and exploration--Congresses.

Canada.

America--Discovery and exploration--Congresses.

America.

Indians of North America--First contact with other peoples--Canada--Congresses.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--First contact with other peoples.

Canada--Civilization--European influences--Congresses.

Europe--Civilization--Canadian influences--Congresses.

Europe.

Canada--Civilization--17th century--Congresses.

Renaissance--Congresses.

Renaissance.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 387 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2001]

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 Thérien

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 / Réal 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 / André 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 / Réginald Auger ... [et al.]

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.

Notes:

Based on papers presented at a conference held at Victoria College, University of Toronto, in March 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-354) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dr. Ada H. Lewis Book Fund.

ISBN:

0802043275

0802081495

OCLC:

46769697