Author: French Colonial Historical Society. MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Proceedings of the ... Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society
Author: French Colonial Historical Society. MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Anatomy of a Naval Disaster
Author: James S. PritchardPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773513259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A compelling account of one of the most ambitious and catastrophic French naval expeditions in the eighteenth century.
Lies of the Land
Author: Camille SerchukPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271098708
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Lies of the Land examines the often-overlooked artistic roots of mapmaking practice in early modern France, offering an original perspective on discourses of accuracy and their relationship to the pictorial origins of modern mapmaking. Until the seventeenth century, most mapmakers in France were painters. Schooled in techniques of drawing and perspective—and in the careful study of nature that we associate with early modernity—they also learned the more expressive and imaginative Mannerist forms that dominated French painting in this period. Their maps draw on conventions of both painting and mapmaking to create beautiful, informative, and persuasive images for a wide variety of contexts and purposes. In this book, Camille Serchuk explores the strategies these cartographers deployed to weave together accuracy, ornament, and artifice in maps at all scales. Looking beyond the techniques of measurement and perspective, Serchuk shows how painterly interventions framed and manipulated the appearance and reception of cartographic objects. Lies of the Land is an important new assessment of the character and status of early modern cartography that challenges binary distinctions between art and science and between decorative and epistemic images. It will appeal especially to art historians and historians of sixteenth-century France as well as scholars of map history.
Canadian History: Beginnings to Confederation
Author: Martin Brook TaylorPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802068262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
"In these two volumes, which replace the Reader's Guide to Canadian History, experts provide a select and critical guide to historical writing about pre- and post-Confederation Canada, with an emphasis on the most recent scholarship" -- Cover.
International Review of Social History
Author: Newsletter of the Society for Italian Historical Studies
Author: Society for Italian Historical Studies (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Canadiana
Author: Books in Print Supplement
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1930
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