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Author Pope, Peter Edward, 1946-2017.

Title The many landfalls of John Cabot / Peter E. Pope.

Publication Info. Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 1997.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "On 24 June 1497 John Cabot landed somewhere on the eastern seaboard of what is now Canada, yet even today, five hundred years later, no one knows precisely where. Once an issue in diplomatic negotiations over title to a continent, Cabot's landfall has also been the subject, especially in centennial years, of competing attempts to appropriate the meaning of the event." "Beginning with the historical context of Cabot's journey, Pope traces the various landfall theories which have placed his landing in locations from the Strait of Belle Isle to Cape Breton. The very uncertainty of our knowledge, he argues, has allowed nationalists in both Newfoundland and Canada to shape the debate about Cabot's itinerary and to stake claims to the landfall that amount to the invention of differing national traditions. As well, Pope concludes, the invented tradition of 'discovery' has allowed Europeans and their descendants to overlook the fact that their possession of North America is based on appropriation from Aboriginal peoples."--Jacket.
Contents 1. An Introduction -- 2. Everything We Know about John Cabot. Documents We Lack. Cabot. Bristol Explorations. Voyage of 1497. Landfall. After the Landfall -- 3. Legends of Sebastian. Cabot That Time Forgot. Achievement of Sebastian Cabot. Sebastian Cabot Lied. Resurrection of John -- 4. Many Landfalls. Newfoundland: Bonavista. Labrador. Cape Breton Island. Maine or Southern Nova Scotia. Strait of Belle Isle -- 5. Traditions of Invention, 1897: Columbus, Cartier, and Cabot. Invention of Tradition. Columbus in America, 1892. Cabot in Canada, 1897. Cabot in Newfoundland, 1897. Cabot versus Cartier. Contest of Traditions. Philatelic Commemoratives -- 6. History of Discovery.
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Subject Cabot, John, -1498?
Cabot, John, -1498?
Cabot, John, -1498?
Cabot, John, m. 1498?
Caboto, Giovanni.
Cabot, John, m. 1498?
Caboto, Giovanni.
America -- Discovery and exploration -- British -- Historiography.
America.
Discoveries in geography.
British.
Historiography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Pope, Peter Edward, 1946- Many landfalls of John Cabot. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1997 9780802007865 (DLC) 98112689 (OCoLC)36989848
ISBN 9781442681699 (electronic book)
1442681691 (electronic book)
0802007864 (bound)
0802071503 (paperback)
9780802007865
9780802071507