Author: Samuel Purchas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108079644
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
A 20-volume seventeenth-century work (reissued in a 1905-7 edition) which follows Hakluyt in recording voyages of exploration.
Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes
Author: Samuel Purchas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108079644
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
A 20-volume seventeenth-century work (reissued in a 1905-7 edition) which follows Hakluyt in recording voyages of exploration.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108079644
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
A 20-volume seventeenth-century work (reissued in a 1905-7 edition) which follows Hakluyt in recording voyages of exploration.
Purchas his pilgrimes
Author: Samuel Purchas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
Mapping the Ottomans
Author: Palmira Brummett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107090776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This book examines how Ottomans were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of early modern Europe's Christian kingdoms.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107090776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This book examines how Ottomans were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of early modern Europe's Christian kingdoms.
Purchas His Pilgrimes
Author: Samuel Purchas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
Author: Ingrid Baumgärtner
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110588773
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The volume discusses the world as it was known in the Medieval and Early Modern periods, focusing on projects concerned with mapping as a conceptual and artistic practice, with visual representations of space, and with destinations of real and fictive travel. Maps were often taken as straightforward, objective configurations. However, they expose deeply subjective frameworks with social, political, and economic significance. Travel narratives, whether illustrated or not, can address similar frameworks. Whereas travelled space is often adventurous, and speaking of hardship, strange encounters and danger, city portraits tell a tale of civilized life and civic pride. The book seeks to address the multiple ways in which maps and travel literature conceive of the world, communicate a 'Weltbild', depict space, and/or define knowledge. The volume challenges academic boundaries in the study of cartography by exploring the links between mapmaking and artistic practices. The contributions discuss individual mapmakers, authors of travelogues, mapmaking as an artistic practice, the relationship between travel literature and mapmaking, illustration in travel literature, and imagination in depictions of newly explored worlds.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110588773
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The volume discusses the world as it was known in the Medieval and Early Modern periods, focusing on projects concerned with mapping as a conceptual and artistic practice, with visual representations of space, and with destinations of real and fictive travel. Maps were often taken as straightforward, objective configurations. However, they expose deeply subjective frameworks with social, political, and economic significance. Travel narratives, whether illustrated or not, can address similar frameworks. Whereas travelled space is often adventurous, and speaking of hardship, strange encounters and danger, city portraits tell a tale of civilized life and civic pride. The book seeks to address the multiple ways in which maps and travel literature conceive of the world, communicate a 'Weltbild', depict space, and/or define knowledge. The volume challenges academic boundaries in the study of cartography by exploring the links between mapmaking and artistic practices. The contributions discuss individual mapmakers, authors of travelogues, mapmaking as an artistic practice, the relationship between travel literature and mapmaking, illustration in travel literature, and imagination in depictions of newly explored worlds.
Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes
Author: Samuel Purchas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North America
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North America
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
The Man-Eating Myth
Author: William Arens
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190281200
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A fascinating and well-researched look into what we really know about cannibalism.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190281200
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A fascinating and well-researched look into what we really know about cannibalism.
Hakluytus posthumus
Author: Samuel Purchas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World
Author: Aske Laursen Brock
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000463559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World explores the links between trade, empire, exploration, and global information trans>fer during the early modern period. By charting how the leaders, members, employees, and supporters of different trading companies gathered, pro>cessed, employed, protected, and divulged intelligence about foreign lands, peoples, and markets, this book throws new light on the internal uses of information by corporate actors and the ways they engaged with, relied on, and supplied various external publics. This ranged from using secret knowl>edge to beat competitors, to shaping debates about empire, and to forcing Europeans to reassess their understandings of specific environments due to contacts with non-European peoples. Reframing our understanding of trading companies through the lens of travel literature, this volume brings together thirteen experts in the field to facilitate a new understanding of how European corporations and empires were shaped by global webs of information exchange
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000463559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World explores the links between trade, empire, exploration, and global information trans>fer during the early modern period. By charting how the leaders, members, employees, and supporters of different trading companies gathered, pro>cessed, employed, protected, and divulged intelligence about foreign lands, peoples, and markets, this book throws new light on the internal uses of information by corporate actors and the ways they engaged with, relied on, and supplied various external publics. This ranged from using secret knowl>edge to beat competitors, to shaping debates about empire, and to forcing Europeans to reassess their understandings of specific environments due to contacts with non-European peoples. Reframing our understanding of trading companies through the lens of travel literature, this volume brings together thirteen experts in the field to facilitate a new understanding of how European corporations and empires were shaped by global webs of information exchange
Thinking Nature
Author: McGrath Sean J. McGrath
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474449298
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Moving between ancient and modern sources, philosophy and theology, and science and popular culture, Sean McGrath offers a genuinely new reflection on what it means to be human in an era of climate change, mass extinction and geoengineering. Engaging with contemporary thinkers in eco-criticism, including Timothy Morton, Bruno Latour and Slavoj Zizek, McGrath argues for a distinctive role for the human being in the universe: the human being is nature come to full consciousness. McGrath's compelling case for a new Anthropocenic humanism is founded on a reverence for nature, a humanism that is not at the expense of nature, and a naturalism that is not at the expense of the human.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474449298
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Moving between ancient and modern sources, philosophy and theology, and science and popular culture, Sean McGrath offers a genuinely new reflection on what it means to be human in an era of climate change, mass extinction and geoengineering. Engaging with contemporary thinkers in eco-criticism, including Timothy Morton, Bruno Latour and Slavoj Zizek, McGrath argues for a distinctive role for the human being in the universe: the human being is nature come to full consciousness. McGrath's compelling case for a new Anthropocenic humanism is founded on a reverence for nature, a humanism that is not at the expense of nature, and a naturalism that is not at the expense of the human.