Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
• File Size : 42,5 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 2024

Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One The Boundaries of Nature -- Chapter Two A New Ecology -- Chapter Three

• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• File Size : 26,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 August 2021

The term trauma refers to a wound or rupture that disorients, causing suffering and fear. Trauma theory has been heavily shaped by responses to modern catastrophes, and as such trauma

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• File Size : 53,8 Mb
• Release Date : 12 December 2019

The Atlantic in World History, 1490-1830 looks at the historical connections between four continents – Africa, Europe, North America and South America – through the lens of Atlantic history. It shows how

• Publisher : University of Georgia Press
• File Size : 43,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 March 2020

There is clear overlap in interests and influences for the fields of Atlantic, environmental, and southern history, but scholarship in them has often advanced on parallel tracks. This anthology places

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 34,6 Mb
• Release Date : 20 June 2019

For centuries, historians have narrated the arrival of Europeans using terminology (discovery, invasion, conquest, and colonization) that emphasizes their agency and disempowers that of Native Americans. This book explores firsting,

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 33,9 Mb
• Release Date : 13 May 2022

Sea and Land provides an in-depth environmental history of the Caribbean to ca 1850, with a coda that takes the story into the modern era. It explores the mixing, movement, and

• Publisher : BRILL
• File Size : 36,7 Mb
• Release Date : 15 January 2024

Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic World explores the creation, dissemination, and consumption of a specific type of news, ‘business news’, within early modern commercial news networks. The volume

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• File Size : 21,7 Mb
• Release Date : 03 May 2019

European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, and sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet between 1500 and 1700 one

• Publisher : Reaktion Books
• File Size : 38,5 Mb
• Release Date : 13 August 2020

People have been fascinated by merpeople and merfolk since ancient times. From the sirens of Homer’s Odyssey to Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and the film Splash,

• Publisher : Penn State Press
• File Size : 27,8 Mb
• Release Date : 25 April 2022

Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans of Kongo and Angola missions, composed between 1650 and 1750 for