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How to Write the History of the New World
Author | : Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0804746931 |
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An Economist Book of the Year, 2001. In the 18th century, a debate ensued over the French naturalist Buffon’s contention that the New World was in fact geologically new. Historians, naturalists, and philosophers clashed over Buffon’s view. This book maintains that the “dispute” was also a debate over historical authority: upon whose sources and facts should naturalists and historians reconstruct the history of the New World and its people. In addressing this question, the author offers a strikingly novel interpretation of the Enlightenment.
History of the New World
Author | : Girolamo Benzoni |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105048552033 |
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The Adventures of Ibn Battuta
Author | : Ross E. Dunn |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520243859 |
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Ross Dunn's classic retelling of the travels of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim of the 14th century.
Race to the New World
Author | : Douglas Hunter |
Publsiher | : D & M Publishers |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2012-02-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1553658574 |
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The final decade of the 15th century was a turning point in world history. The Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus sailed westward on the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, famously determined to discover for Spain a shorter and more direct route to the riches of the Indies. Meanwhile, a fellow Italian explorer for hire, John Cabot, set off on his own journey, under England's flag. Here, Douglas Hunter tells the fascinating tale of how, during this expedition, Columbus gained a rival. In the space of a few critical years, these two men engaged in a high-stakes race that threatened the precarious diplomatic balance of Europe--to exploit what they believed was a shortcut to staggering wealth. Instead, they found a New World that neither was looking for. Douglas Hunter provides a revelatory look at how the lives of Columbus and Cabot were interconnected, and that neither explorer can be understood properly without understanding both. Together, Cabot and Columbus provide a novel and important perspective on the first years of European experience of the New World.
A Natural History of the New World
Author | : Alan Graham |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226306803 |
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A Natural History of the New World traces the evolution of plant ecosystems, beginning in the Late Cretaceous period and ending in the present, charting their responses to changes in geology and climate.
Brave New World
Author | : Aldous Huxley |
Publsiher | : Rosetta Books |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780795311253 |
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This classic novel of a perfectly engineered society is “one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the twentieth century” (The Wall Street Journal). Half a millennium from now, in the World State, the watchword is that every one belongs to every one else. No matter what class of human you are bred to be—from the intellectual Alphas to the Epsilons who provide the manual labor—you are a part of the efficient, well-oiled whole. You are nourished, secure, and blissfully serene thanks to the freely distributed drug called soma. And while sex is strongly encouraged, the old way of procreation is forbidden, eliminating even the pains of childbirth. But when a man and woman journey beyond these confines to where the “savages” reside, and bring back two outsiders, the cracks begin to show. Named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century by the Modern Library, Brave New World is one of the first truly dystopian novels. Influenced by the historic events of Huxley’s era yet as relevant today as ever, it is a remarkable depiction of the conflict between progress and the human spirit. “Chilling. . . . That he gave us the dark side of genetic engineering in 1932 is amazing.” —Providence Journal-Bulletin “It is a frightening experience, indeed, to discover how much of his satirical prediction of a distant future became reality in so short a time.” —The New York Times Book Review
Innocence Abroad
Author | : Benjamin Schmidt |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2001-11-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0521804086 |
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Innocence Abroad explores the encounter between the Netherlands and the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The Indians New World
Author | : James H. Merrell |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807838693 |
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This eloquent, pathbreaking account follows the Catawbas from their first contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century until they carved out a place in the American republic three centuries later. It is a story of Native agency, creativity, resilience, and endurance. Upon its original publication in 1989, James Merrell's definitive history of Catawbas and their neighbors in the southern piedmont helped signal a new direction in the study of Native Americans, serving as a model for their reintegration into American history. In an introduction written for this twentieth anniversary edition, Merrell recalls the book's origins and considers its place in the field of early American history in general and Native American history in particular, both at the time it was first published and two decades later.