Old Worlds New Worlds
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Old Worlds New Worlds
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Author : Lisa Kaaren Bailey
language : en
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Release Date : 2009
Old Worlds New Worlds written by Lisa Kaaren Bailey and has been published by Brepols Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Discoveries in geography categories.
Pre-modern European history is replete with moments of encounter. At the end of arduous sea and land journeys, and en route, Europeans met people who challenged their assumptions and certainties about the world. Some sought riches, others allies; some looked for Christian converts and some aimed for conquest. Others experienced the forced cultural encounter of exile. Many travelled only in imagination, forming ideas which have become foundational to modern mentalities: race, ethnicity, nation, and the nature of humanity. The consequences were profound: both productive and destructive. At the beginning of the third millennium CE we occupy a world shaped by those centuries of travel and encounter. This collection examines key themes and moments in European cultural expansion. Unlike many studies it spans both the medieval and early modern periods, challenging the stereotype of the post-Columbus 'age of discovery'. There is room too for examining cross-cultural relationships within Europe and regions closely linked to it, to show that curiosity, conflict and transformation could result from such meetings as they did in more far-flung realms. Several essays deal with authors, events, and ideas which will be unfamiliar to most readers but which deserve greater attention in the history of encounter and exploration.
The Scientific Revolution A Very Short Introduction
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Author : Lawrence Principe
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-04-28
The Scientific Revolution A Very Short Introduction written by Lawrence Principe and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-28 with Science categories.
Lawrence M. Principe takes a fresh approach to the story of the scientific revolution, emphasising the historical context of the society and its world view at the time. From astronomy to alchemy and medicine to geology, he tells this fascinating story from the perspective of the historical characters involved.
Old Worlds For New
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Author : Arthur Joseph Penty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1918
Old Worlds For New written by Arthur Joseph Penty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1918 with Great Britain categories.
Old Worlds New Worlds Other Worlds
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Author : Children's Book Council of Australia NSW Branch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-05-28
Old Worlds New Worlds Other Worlds written by Children's Book Council of Australia NSW Branch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-28 with categories.
A rich anthology of stories, plays, poetry and illustrations from members of CBCA NSW Branch to engage children in the 2021 theme for CBCA Book Week and beyond. Created by over 70 contributors, including some of the most well loved Australian children's literature creatives as well as many up-and-coming. The Foreward is from the NSW Governor, the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC and Mir Wilson, introduction from Ursula Dubosarsky the Australian Children's Laureate and acknowledgement of Country in Dharug by Jasmine Seymour. All the work has been donated by the creatives and developed by the dedicated committee of the CBCA NSW Branch Eastern Suburbs Sub-branch.Funds raised by the sales of this anthology will further the work of Bothe the CBCA NSW Branch and their Eastern Suburbs Sub-branch in fulfilling their shared purpose: to ensure Australian children have stories written for them, to support and celebrate the work of our Australian creatives, and to promote the joy of reading.
Old Worlds
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Author : John Michael Archer
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2001
Old Worlds written by John Michael Archer and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book aligns ancient and early modern European travel narratives and historical surveys of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and Russia with texts that contributed to English ideas about those regions: Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Love's Labour's Lost, Milton's Paradise Lost and Muscovia, and Dryden's Aureng-Zebe.
New Worlds Ancient Texts
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Author : Anthony Grafton
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1995-03-15
New Worlds Ancient Texts written by Anthony Grafton and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-03-15 with History categories.
Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans so far afield. What Anthony Grafton recounts is a war of ideas fought by mariners, scientists, publishers, and rulers over a period of 150 years. In colorful vignettes, published debates, and copious illustrations, we see these men and their contemporaries trying to make sense of their discoveries as they sometimes confirm, sometimes contest, and finally displace traditional notions of the world beyond Europe.
Conversion
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Author : Kenneth Mills
language : en
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Release Date : 2003
Conversion written by Kenneth Mills and has been published by University Rochester Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Religion categories.
A historical investigation of the phenomena of religious conversion from ancient to modern times. This volume explores the subject of religious conversion over broad expanses of time and space, considering cases from the thirteenth through the twentieth centuries and from settings across the world. Leading scholars from a variety of historical sub-fields address the theme at a moment when the utility of the concept of conversion is vigorously debated. The historical settings treated here stretch from thirteenth-century England to sixteenth-century southern India and Andean Peru, from Bohemia to China during the age of the Reformations, from the fifteenth-century Low Countries to seventeenth-century New France and from the nineteenth-century Minnesota borderlands to late colonial Zimbabwe and modern India. The book's broad mixture of examples and approaches will both encourage a deepening of specialist knowledge about particular places and times, and spark new thinking about religious change, cultural appropriations, and interactive emergence across discipline and fields. This book is one of two collections of essays on religious conversion drawn from the activities of the Shelby Cullum Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University between 1999 and 2001. The other volume, Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, is also published by the University of Rochester Press.
Between Old Worlds And New
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Author : Wilfrid Mellers
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 1997
Between Old Worlds And New written by Wilfrid Mellers and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Music categories.
Wilfrid Mellers ranks among the most eminent of contemporary British writers and lecturers on music. The range of his interest is exceptionally wide, encompassing music from the renaissance to the present day, from Monteverdi to Minimalism, not excluding jazz and many different forms of popular music, as well as music from non-western cultures. That breadth of vision is nowhere more apparent than in his occasional writings. In these necessarily concentrated and closely focused pieces we find the essence of his thinking about music, its nature and its meaning. Written in the first instance for the general reader, they also offer insights that should be of importance to music students in schools, colleges, and universities.
New Worlds For Old
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Author : William Brandon
language : en
Publisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press
Release Date : 1986
New Worlds For Old written by William Brandon and has been published by Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with America categories.
New Worlds From Old Texts
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Author : Elton Thomas Edward Barker
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
New Worlds From Old Texts written by Elton Thomas Edward Barker and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
Maps dominate the modern sense of place and geography. Yet, so far as we can tell, maps were rare in the Greco-Roman world and, when mentioned in sources, are mistrusted and criticized. Today, technological advances have brought to the fore an entirely new set of methods for representing and interacting with space. In contrast to traditional "topographic" perspectives, the territorial extent of economic and political realms is increasingly conceived though a "topological" lens, in which the nature and frequency of links among different sites matter more than the physical distances between them. New Worlds from Old Texts focuses on the ancient Greek experience of space, conceived of in terms of both its literature and material culture remains, and uses this to reflect on modern thinking. Comprising twelve chapters written by a highly interdisciplinary range of contributors, this edited collection explores the rich array of representational devices employed by ancient authors, whose narrative depictions of spatial relations defy the logic of images and surfaces that dominates contemporary cartographic thought. The volume focuses on Herodotus' Histories--a text that is increasingly cited by Classicists as an example of how ancient perceptions of space may have been rather different to the modern cartographic view--but also considers perceptions of space through the lens of other authors, genres, cultural contexts, and disciplines. In doing so, it reveals how a study of the ancient world can be reinvigorated by, and in turn help to shape, modern technological innovation and methods.