| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 344 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Representations books ; 6
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Representations books ; 6.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Christopher Columbus's "Letter to the Sovereigns": announcing the discovery / Margarita Zamora -- "Fierce and Unnatural Cruelty": Cortes and the conquest of Mexico / Inga Clendinnen -- The negotiation of fear in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios / Rolena Adorno -- Ius et Factum: text and experience in the writings of Bartolome de Las Casas / Anthony Pagden -- Demons, imagination, and the Incas / Sabine MacCormack -- The philosopher's breviary: Jean de Lery in the enlightenment / Frank Lestringant -- The aesthetics of conquest: Aztec poetry before and after Cortes / David Damrosch -- Dancing and the sacred in the Andes: from the Taqui-Oncoy to Rasu-Niti / Sara Castro-Klaren -- The work of gender in the discourse of discovery / Louis Montrose -- Ralegh's fugitive gold: reference and deferral in The Discoverie of Guiana / Mary C. Fuller -- Voices of resistance: the epic curse and Camoes's Adamastor / David Quint -- Elizabethan tobacco / Jeffrey Knapp -- Epilogue: Michel de Certeau's heterology and the new world / Luce Giard -- Travel narratives of the French to Brazil: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Michel De Certeau. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Sources.
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America. |
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Discoveries in geography. |
| Genre/Form |
Sources.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Early works.
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| Added Author |
Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: New world encounters. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993 0520080203 (DLC) 92019328 (OCoLC)25914218 |
| ISBN |
9780520913103 (electronic book) |
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0520913108 (electronic book) |
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0585081557 (electronic book) |
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9780585081557 (electronic book) |
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0520080203 (alkaline paper) |
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0520080211 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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