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The German discovery of the world : Renaissance encounters with the strange and marvelous / Christine R. Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Christine R., 1971-
- Series:
- Studies in early modern German history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discoveries in geography.
- Public opinion.
- Germany--Intellectual life.
- Germany.
- Intellectual life.
- America--Discovery and exploration--Public opinion.
- America.
- Public opinion--Germany.
- Physical Description:
- x, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- There and back again: the travelers' tales
- Plotting the discoveries: the cosmographies
- Accounting for the discoveries: the commercial correspondence
- Too rich for German blood? The spice trade as an economic, moral, and medical threat
- The sorrows of young Welser: the commercial misfortunes.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Johns Hopkins University.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-292) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813927121
- 0813927129
- OCLC:
- 173659670
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