Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Voyages & Discoveries of Early Travellers and Missionaries
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Letter Of Christopher Columbus To Rafael Sanchez, Written On Board The Caravel While Returning From His First Voyage
Author: Christopher ColumbusPublisher:
ISBN: 9789354483202
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Letter Of Christopher Columbus To Rafael Sanchez, Written On Board The Caravel While Returning From His First Voyage has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery
Author: Peter C. MancallPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195155971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
This is a primary source collection of narratives about the travel and discovery in North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe in the 16th century.
A Catalogue of Books
Author: Henry George BohnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 2130
Book Description
The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle
Author: Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America
Author: Christopher ColumbusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Age of Reconnaissance
Author: J H ParryPublisher: Orion
ISBN: 0297865951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
The Age of Reconnaissance, as J. H. Parry so aptly named it, was the period in which Europe discovered the rest of the world. It began with Henry the Navigator and the Portuguese voyages in the mid-fifteenth century and ended 250 years later when the 'reconnaissance' was all but complete. This book is less concerned with the voyages of discovery themselves than with an analysis of the factors that made the voyages possible in the first place. Dr Parry examines the inducements - political, economic, religious - to overseas enterprises at the time, and analyses the nature and problems of the various European settlements in the new lands. At the beginning of the period central to this book, the middle of the fifteenth century, the normal educated man believed that the Ancients were more civilized, more elegant, wiser and, except in religious matters, better informed than his contemporaries. But gradually as the reconnaissance proceeded, the European picture became fuller and more detailed and with it the idea of continually expanding knowledge became more familiar and the links between science and practical life became closer. The unprecedented power which it produced would eventually lead Europe from reconnaissance to worldwide conquest.
Voyages and Beaches
Author: Alex CalderPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824820398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the consequences of their meeting? In this collection of essays, scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds provide answers to these questions. Writing from, and between, a variety of disciplines (history, anthropology, Maori Studies, literary criticism, law, cultural studies, art history, Pacific Studies), they show how the Pacific reveals a more various and contradictory history than that supposed by such homogenizing metropolitan myths as the introduction of civilization to savage peoples, the general ruin of indigenous cultures by an imperial juggernaut, or the mimicry of European models by an abject population. They examine contact from both sides of beaches throughout Polynesia, exposing the many inconsistencies from which Pacific history is made. Some of the essays consider the extent to which traditional European ideas about organizing and legitimizing claims to territory and power were invoked and problematized in the South Pacific; some consider the violence endemic in such scenes; others examine the aesthetic discourses with which early travelers and settlers attempted to make sense of the Pacific in the aftermath of "discovery." But rather than reiterate the myths and anti-myths of conquest, these essays show how local differences have made and do make a difference. They emphasize the Pacific's capacity to absorb and transform the impact of Europe, an impact that has been as notable for its ambivalence and confusion as for its single-minded pursuit of hegemony. The editors develop these themes in a wide-ranging introduction that relates Pacific concerns to a more global set of theoretical and methodological problems, including current work in post-colonial and subaltern studies.
A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, Others Now First Published in English. In Eight Volumes
Author: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages & Travels, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time
Author: R. P. ForsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description