America in European consciousness, 1493-1750 / edited by Karen Ordahl Kupperman.

Contributor(s): Kupperman, Karen Ordahl, 1939- [editor.] | Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Hapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va. by the University of North Carolina Press, 1995 ©1995Description: xiii, 428 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0807821667 (paperback)Subject(s): Public opinion -- Europe -- History | Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- History | America -- Foreign public opinion, European -- History | America -- Historiography | Europe -- Colonies -- America | America -- History -- To 1810LOC classification: E18.75 .A44 1995
Contents:
Introduction: the changing definition of America / Karen Ordahl Kupperman -- pt. 1. America and the historical imagination: America and the rewriting of world history / Peter Burke -- The new world and British historical thought: from Richard Hakluyt to William Robertson / David Armitage -- pt. 2. America reflected in Europe: Limits of understanding: perceptions of Greco-Roman and Amerindian paganism in early modern Europe / Sabine MacCormack -- Petrarchism among the discourses of imperialism / Roland Greene -- A reconsideration of Montaigne's Des cannibales / David Quint -- pt. 3. America and European aspirations: The Holy See and the conversion of the Indians in French and British North America, 1486-1760 / Luca Codignola -- Campanella, America, and world Evangelization / John M. Headley -- The beehive as a model for colonial design / Karen Ordahl Kupperman -- pt. 4. America and the scholarly impulse: The new world and the European catalog of nature / Henry Lowood -- The collecting of American Indian artifacts in Europe, 1493-1750 / Christian F. Feest -- Americana in British books, 1621-1760 / Richard C. Simmons -- pt. 5. Conclusion: Final reflections: the old world and the new revisited / J.H. Elliott
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the changing definition of America / Karen Ordahl Kupperman -- pt. 1. America and the historical imagination: America and the rewriting of world history / Peter Burke -- The new world and British historical thought: from Richard Hakluyt to William Robertson / David Armitage -- pt. 2. America reflected in Europe: Limits of understanding: perceptions of Greco-Roman and Amerindian paganism in early modern Europe / Sabine MacCormack -- Petrarchism among the discourses of imperialism / Roland Greene -- A reconsideration of Montaigne's Des cannibales / David Quint -- pt. 3. America and European aspirations: The Holy See and the conversion of the Indians in French and British North America, 1486-1760 / Luca Codignola -- Campanella, America, and world Evangelization / John M. Headley -- The beehive as a model for colonial design / Karen Ordahl Kupperman -- pt. 4. America and the scholarly impulse: The new world and the European catalog of nature / Henry Lowood -- The collecting of American Indian artifacts in Europe, 1493-1750 / Christian F. Feest -- Americana in British books, 1621-1760 / Richard C. Simmons -- pt. 5. Conclusion: Final reflections: the old world and the new revisited / J.H. Elliott

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