Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 474
Book Description
Lettres Édifiantes Et Curieuses
Author: Lettres edifiantes et curieuses, ecrites des missions etrangeres,
Author: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
History, Rhetoric, and Proof
Author: Carlo GinzburgPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874519334
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
One of the world's leading historians delivers a pathbreaking analysis of truth and rhetoric in the writing of history.
Indigenuity
Author: Caroline WiggintonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469670380
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
For hundreds of years, American artisanship and American authorship were entangled practices rather than distinct disciplines. Books, like other objects, were multisensory items all North American communities and cultures, including Native and settler colonial ones, regularly made and used. All cultures and communities narrated and documented their histories and imaginations through a variety of media. All created objects for domestic, sacred, curative, and collective purposes. In this innovative work at the intersection of Indigenous studies, literary studies, book history, and material culture studies, Caroline Wigginton tells a story of the interweavings of Native craftwork and American literatures from their ancient roots to the present. Focused primarily on North America, especially the colonized lands and waters now claimed by the United States, this book argues for the foundational but often-hidden aesthetic orientation of American literary history toward Native craftwork. Wigginton knits this narrative to another of Indigenous aesthetic repatriation through the making and using of books and works of material expression. Ultimately, she reveals that Native craftwork is by turns the warp and weft of American literature, interwoven throughout its long history.
Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet
Author: Sir Clements Robert MarkhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lhasa (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet
Author: George BoglePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108022553
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Detailed first-hand accounts of the first British diplomatic voyages to Tibet, first published in 1876.
L'Amérique Méridionale: The Map That Shaped Brazil in the 18th Century
Author: Junia Ferreira FurtadoPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004710760
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This book explores how the origins of Brazil’s modern borders can be traced to the cartography of the Americas produced by the eighteenth-century French cartographer J.B.B. d’Anville. It argues that this map reflects the geopolitical policies of the Portuguese diplomat D. Luis da Cunha, who was involved in Portugal’s negotiations with the Spanish to formally establish Brazil’s frontiers, and highlights how and why these policies were adopted in the Treaty of Madrid in 1750.
Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Author: Sojourners in a Strange Land
Author: Florence C. HsiaPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226355616
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and armillaries reportedly astonished the Chinese. But the icon of the missionary-scientist is itself a complex myth. Masterfully correcting the standard story of China Jesuits as simple conduits for Western science, Florence C. Hsia shows how these missionary-scientists remade themselves as they negotiated the place of the profane sciences in a religious enterprise. Sojourners in a Strange Land develops a genealogy of Jesuit conceptions of scientific life within the Chinese mission field from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Analyzing the printed record of their endeavors in natural philosophy and mathematics, Hsia identifies three models of the missionary man of science by their genres of writing: mission history, travelogue, and academic collection. Drawing on the history of early modern Europe’s scientific, religious, and print culture, she uses the elaboration and reception of these scientific personae to construct the first collective biography of the Jesuit missionary-scientist’s many incarnations in late imperial China.