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Decentring the Renaissance Canada and Europe in multidisciplinary perspective, 1500-1700
Record details
- ISBN: 0802043275 (bound)
- ISBN: 0802081495 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780802043276
- ISBN: 1442673761 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781442673762 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 387 p.) : ill., maps.
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electronic resource - Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2001.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. Based on papers presented at a conference held at Victoria College, University of Toronto, in March 1996. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-354) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Polarities, hybridities: what strategies for decentring? / Natalie Zemon Davis -- Inclusive and exclusive perceptions of difference: native and Euro-based concepts of time, history, and change / Deborah Doxtator -- Plunder or harmony?: On merging European and native views of early contact / Toby Morantz -- Memoria as the place of fabrication of the New World / Gilles Thérien -- The sixteenth-century French vision of empire: the other side of self-determination / Olive Patricia Dickason -- The mentality of the men behind sixteenth-century Spanish voyages to Terranova / Selma Huxley Barkham -- Relocating Terra Firma: William Vaughn's Newfoundland / Anne Lake Prescott -- Images of English origins in Newfoundland and Roanoke / Mary C. Fuller -- From the good savage to the degenerate Indian: the Amerindian in the accounts of travel to America / Réal Ouellet with Mylene Tremblay -- Few, uncooperative, and ill informed?: The Roman Catholic clergy in French and British North America, 1610-1658 / Luca Codignola -- Canada in seventeenth-century Jesuit thought: backwater or opportunity? / Peter A. Goddard -- 'A new Loreto in New France': Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot, SJ, and the Holy House of Loreto / André Sanfac̦on -- The delights of nature in this New World: a seventeenth-century Canadian view of the environment / Lynn Berry -- The beginning of French exploration out of the St. Lawrence Valley: motives, methods, and changing attitudes towards native people / Conrad E. Heidenreich -- The earliest European encounters with Iroquoian languages / Wallace Chafe -- Decentring icons of history: exploring the archaeology of the Frobisher voyages and early European-Inuit contact / Réginald Auger ... [et al.] -- Sir William Phips and the decentring of empire in Northeastern North America, 1690-1694 / Emerson W. Baker and John G. Reid -- Amerindians and the horizon of modernity / Denys Delâge and Jean-Philippe Warren. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Access restricted by subscription. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Genre: | Conference papers and proceedings. Toronto (1996) Electronic books. |
