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1 online resource (xii, 387 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Note |
Based on papers presented at a conference held at Victoria College, University of Toronto, in March 1996. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-354) and index. |
| Contents |
Polarities, hybridities: what strategies for decentring? / Natalie Zemon Davis -- Inclusive and exclusive perceptions of difference: native and Euro-based concepts of time, history, and change / Deborah Doxtator -- Plunder or harmony?: On merging European and native views of early contact / Toby Morantz -- Memoria as the place of fabrication of the New World / Gilles Thérien -- Sixteenth-century French vision of empire: the other side of self-determination / Olive Patricia Dickason -- Mentality of the men behind sixteenth-century Spanish voyages to Terranova / Selma Huxley Barkham -- Relocating Terra Firma: William Vaughn's Newfoundland / Anne Lake Prescott -- Images of English origins in Newfoundland and Roanoke / Mary C. Fuller -- From the good savage to the degenerate Indian: the Amerindian in the accounts of travel to America / Réal Ouellet with Mylene Tremblay -- Few, uncooperative, and ill informed?: The Roman Catholic clergy in French and British North America, 1610-1658 / Luca Codignola -- Canada in seventeenth-century Jesuit thought: backwater or opportunity? / Peter A. Goddard -- 'A new Loreto in New France': Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot, SJ, and the Holy House of Loreto / André Sanfac̦on -- Delights of nature in this New World: a seventeenth-century Canadian view of the environment / Lynn Berry -- Beginning of French exploration out of the St. Lawrence Valley: motives, methods, and changing attitudes towards native people / Conrad E. Heidenreich -- Earliest European encounters with Iroquoian languages / Wallace Chafe -- Decentring icons of history: exploring the archaeology of the Frobisher voyages and early European-Inuit contact / Réginald Auger [and others] -- Sir William Phips and the decentring of empire in Northeastern North America, 1690-1694 / Emerson W. Baker and John G. Reid -- Amerindians and the horizon of modernity / Denys Delâge and Jean-Philippe Warren. |
| Summary |
In 1497, explorers from the confident world of Renaissance Europe sailed, under Captain Giovanni Caboto, into what are now Canadian waters. This significant encounter brought into contact two worlds equally ignorant of each other and set in motion a number of events that culminated in the birth of a new nation. The Renaissance, ordinarily thought of as an entirely European-centred phenomenon is 'de-centred' in these eighteen innovative essays. They explore not only how the European Renaissance helped form Canada, but also how more significantly the experience of Canada touched the Renaissance and those who first came to the shores of North America. Representing a range of disciplines, including literature, anthropology, biology, history, linguistics, and anthropology, this work re-thinks traditional notions of Canada and of the Renaissance. The essays examine both the interaction between the two worlds as well as the ways that this interaction has traditionally been interpreted. As distinct from the rapid transformation of South and Central America, the focus is on the slower northern experience, questioning the European monopoly on history, politics, and science, as well as the misrepresentation of Canada's Aboriginal peoples. Originally presented at a 1996 conference at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, these essays provide a wealth of new information and a variety of new perspectives on the collision of the Old World with the New. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Canada -- Discovery and exploration -- Congresses.
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Canada. |
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Discoveries in geography. |
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America -- Discovery and exploration -- Congresses.
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America. |
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Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples -- Canada -- Congresses.
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Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples. |
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Canada -- Civilization -- European influences -- Congresses.
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Civilization. |
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Europe -- Civilization -- Canadian influences -- Congresses.
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Europe. |
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Renaissance -- Congresses.
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Renaissance. |
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Geschichte 1500-1700. |
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1600-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Toronto (1996)
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Warkentin, Germaine.
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Podruchny, Carolyn.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Decentring the Renaissance. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2001 9786612028472 (DLC) 2002318477 (OCoLC)46769697 |
| ISBN |
9781442673762 (electronic book) |
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1442673761 (electronic book) |
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1282028472 |
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9781282028470 |
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9780802043276 |
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0802081495 (paperback) |
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0802043275 (bound) |
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