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The German Discovery of the World. Renaissance Encounters with the Strange and Marvelous.
Christine R. Johnson
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Hardback. Historiography suggests that European nations regarded the New World as an inassimilable "other" that posed fundamental challenges to the accepted ideas of Renaissance culture. This work presents an interpretation that emphasizes the ways in which the lands and peoples in Africa, Asia, and the Americas were imagined as comprehensible and familiar. Series: Studies in Early Modern German History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBAH; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 581.
Current historiography suggests that European nations regarded the New World as an inassimilable ""other"" that posed fundamental challenges to the accepted ideas of Renaissance culture. ""The German Discovery of the World"" presents a new interpretation that emphasizes the ways in which the new lands and peoples in Africa, Asia, and the Americas were imagined as comprehensible and familiar. In chapters dedicated to travel narratives, cosmography, commerce, and medical botany, Johnson examines how existing ideas and methods were deployed to make German commentators experts in the overseas world, and how this incorporation established the discoveries as new and important intellectual, commercial, ... Read more
Current historiography suggests that European nations regarded the New World as an inassimilable ""other"" that posed fundamental challenges to the accepted ideas of Renaissance culture. ""The German Discovery of the World"" presents a new interpretation that emphasizes the ways in which the new lands and peoples in Africa, Asia, and the Americas were imagined as comprehensible and familiar. In chapters dedicated to travel narratives, cosmography, commerce, and medical botany, Johnson examines how existing ideas and methods were deployed to make German commentators experts in the overseas world, and how this incorporation established the discoveries as new and important intellectual, commercial, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Early Modern German History
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813927121
SKU
V9780813927121
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About Christine R. Johnson
Christine R. Johnson is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Washington University.
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