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.
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
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
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
Hakluytus Posthumus Or Purchas His Pilgrimes
Author: Samuel Purchas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in Early Modern English Culture
Author: Matthew Dimmock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107032911
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This book explores how the figure of the Prophet Muhammad was misrepresented in English and wider Christian culture between 1480 and 1735. By tracing the ways in which 'Mahomet' was written and rewritten, contested and celebrated, this study explores notions of identity and religion, and the resonances of this history today.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107032911
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This book explores how the figure of the Prophet Muhammad was misrepresented in English and wider Christian culture between 1480 and 1735. By tracing the ways in which 'Mahomet' was written and rewritten, contested and celebrated, this study explores notions of identity and religion, and the resonances of this history today.