1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996395219403316

Autore

Ruthven Patrick, Lord, <1584?-1652.>

Titolo

The ladies cabinet enlarged and opened [[electronic resource] ] : containing, many rare secrets, and rich ornaments, of several kinds, and different uses.  Comprized under three general heads, viz. of [brace] 1. Preserving, conserving, candying, &c.  2. Physick and chirurgery.  3. Cookery and houswifery.  Whereunto is added, sundry experiments, and choice extractions of waters, oyls, &c. / / Collected and practised; by the late Right Honourable and learned chymist, the Lord Ruthuen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for G. Bedel and T. Collins, at the Middle Temple Gate Fleet-street, 1658

Edizione

[The third edit with additions; and a particular table to each part.]

Descrizione fisica

[8], 251, [17] p

Altri autori (Persone)

M. B

Soggetti

Cooking - England

Home economics - England

Medicine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Preface signed: M.B.

Contents of the third part on p. [1-4] at end.

Publishers advertisements on p. [5-17] at end.

Imperfect: pages tightly bound with some loss of text.

Reproduction of original in: National Library of Scotland.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0097



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784378603321

Titolo

Amerindian images and the legacy of Columbus [[electronic resource] /] / René Jara and Nicholas Spadaccini, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1992

ISBN

0-8166-8474-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (769 p.)

Collana

Hispanic issues ; ; v. 9

Altri autori (Persone)

JaraRené <1941->

SpadacciniNicholas

Disciplina

970.01/5

Soggetti

Indians - History

Indians in literature

Indians - Public opinion

Public opinion - Europe

America Discovery and exploration

Spain Colonies America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: The Construction of a Colonial Imaginary: Columbus's Signature; Chapter 1 Word and Mirror: Presages of the Encounter; Chapter 2 De Bry's Las Casas; Chapter 3 (Re)discovering Aztec Images; Chapter 4 Fantastic Tales and Chronicles of the Indies; Chapter 5 Reading in the Margins of Columbus; Chapter 6 To Read Is to Misread, To Write Is to Miswrite: Las Casas as Transcriber; Chapter 7 Loving Columbus; Chapter 8 Fray Ramón Pané, Discoverer of the Taíno People

Chapter 9 Colonial Writing and Indigenous Discourse in Ramón Pané's Relación acerca de las antigüedades de los indios Chapter 10 When Speaking Was Not Good Enough: Illiterates, Barbarians, Savages, and Cannibals; Chapter 11 Colonial Reform or Utopia? Guaman Poma's Empire of the Four Parts of the World; Chapter 12 Amerindian Image and Utopian Project: Motolinía and Millenarian Discourse; Chapter 13 The Place of the Translator in the Discourses of Conquest: Hernán Cortés's Cartas de relación and Roland Joffé's The Mission

Chapter 14 Other-Fashioning: The Discourse of Empire and Nation in



Lope de Vega's El nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristóbal Colón Chapter 15 Authoritarianism in Brazilian Colonial Discourse; Chapter 16 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz;  or, The Snares of (Con)(tra)di(c)tion; Chapter 17 The Indian as Image and as Symbolic Structure: Bartolomé Arzáns's Historia de la Villa Imperial de Potosí; Chapter 18 Images of America in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Comedy; Chapter 19 Humboldt and the Reinvention of America; Chapter 20 Atahuallpa Inca: Axial Figure in the Encounter of Two Worlds

Chapter 21 Art and Resistance in the Andean World Chapter 22 Saer's Fictional Representation of the Amerindian in the Context of Modern Historiography; Chapter 23 An Image of Hispanic America from the Spain of 1992; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The legacy of Columbus's discovery of the New World and its subsequent colonization is a current focus of much historical investigation. Columbus himself continues to be a cipher like the signature he crafted for himself, a signature no one has been able to decode. What is certain, however, is that this signature symbolized the construction of a colonial imagery that is still operative and that the consequences of the violent encounter between the European and Amerindian civilizations are now being debated and reinterpreted.  Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus examines the constitution