The globe encircled and the world revealed / / edited by Ursula Lamb
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| Titolo: |
The globe encircled and the world revealed / / edited by Ursula Lamb
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| Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (348 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 910/.9 |
| Soggetto topico: | Discoveries in geography |
| Civilization, Modern - European influences | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Europe Territorial expansion |
| Europe Colonies | |
| America Discovery and exploration | |
| Altri autori: |
LambUrsula
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| Note generali: | First published 1995 by Ashgate Publishing. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 1. On the way to the East: Portuguese communication with Africans on the searoute to India / Jeanne Hein -- 2. Wishes and facts: The evaluation of Columbus' 'India' project by Portuguese and Spanish cosmographers in the light of the geographic science of the time / W.G.L. Randles -- 3. In search of meaning: The certainty of Columbus : some recent studies / John Larner -- 4. Significance of interpretation: The meaning of 'discovery' in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Wilcomb E. Washburn -- 5. Key to the terraquaeus globe: 'The strait that shall forever bear his name' : October-November 1520 / Samuel Eliot Morison -- 6. Mariner's world: Seamen ashore and afloat : the social environment of the Carreira da India, 1550-1750 / A.J.R. Russell-Wood -- 7. Arrival and conflict: Conquest and so-called conquest in Spain and Spanish America / Charles Gibson -- Nature responds: America as model : the demographic impact of European expansion upon the non-European world / Woodrow W. Borah -- 9. Atlantic becomes familiar: Generalizations : European source regions / D.W. Meinig -- 10. City in Spain: Seville in the sixteenth century / Ruth Pike -- 11. City in America: Tenochtitlan : the public image / Inga Clendinnen -- 12. Mission to save souls: Faith and empire : the cross and the crown in Portuguese expansion, fifteenth to eighteenth centuries / C.R. Boxer -- 13. Intent and effect of colonization : a secular sense of responsibility / John H. Parry -- 14. Instrument for the voiceless: Indian riots and rebellions in colonial Central America, 1530-1720 / Murdo J. MacLeod -- 15. Impact blunted for Europe: Renaissance Europe and America : a blunted impact? / John H. Elliott. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Globe encircled and the world revealed |
| ISBN: | 1-315-23934-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910154585403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Expanding world ; ; Volume 3.