First Images of America. Volume 2 / Fredi Chiappelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chiappelli, Fredi, Author.

Contributor:

Chiappelli, Fredi, Editor.

Series:

First Images of America ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Table of Illustrations

The New World in French and English Historians of the Sixteenth Century

Some Bibliographical Observations on and Questions about the Relationship between the Discovery of America and the Invention of Printing

Printed Reports on the Early Discoveries and Their Reception

Learning to Curse: Aspects of Linguistic Colonialism in the Sixteenth Century

Changes in the European Languages under a New Set of Sociolinguistic Circumstances

Borrowing Versus Semantic Shift: New World Nomenclature in European Languages

New Geographical Horizons: Concepts

New Geographical Horizons: Literature

New Geographical Horizons: Maps

Cosmographers of Seville: Nautical Science and Social Experience

Celestial Navigation: From Local Systems to a Global Conception

The Mixing of Populations

Spanish Emigrants to the Indies, 1595-98: A Profile

Spanish Migration to the New World prior to 1810: A Report on the State of Research

Letters and People to Spain

A Bibliography on Spanish Migration

The Columbian Discoveries and the Growth of Botanical Ideas with Special Reference to the Sixteenth Century

Changing Perception and Exploitation of New World Plants in Europe, 1492-1800

America and the European Drug Trade

The Problem of Syphilis

What the New World Gave the Economy of the Old

Epilogue

Index of dates

Index of names and subjects

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520348127

0520348125

OCLC:

1202623909