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Book America  Part I  English  A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia  of the Commodities and of the Nature and Manners of the Naturall Inhabitants  Discouered by the English Colony There Seated by Sir R  Greinuile     In     1585     This Fore Booke is Made in English by Thomas Hariot   The True Pictures and Fashions of the People in that Parte of America Now Called Virginia  Discowred by Englismen Sent Thither in the Years of Our Lorde 1585     Translated Out of Latin Into English by Richard Hackluit  Diligentlye Collected and Draowne by Ihon White     Now Cutt in Copper and First Published by T  de Bry  Etc  Som Picture  of the Pictes which in the Olde Tyme Dyd Habite One Part of the Great Bretainne     the which I Wold Well Sett to the Ende of Thees First Figures  for to Showe how that the Inhabitants of the Great Bretannie Have Bin in Times Past as Sauuage as Those of Virginia

Download or read book America Part I English A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia of the Commodities and of the Nature and Manners of the Naturall Inhabitants Discouered by the English Colony There Seated by Sir R Greinuile In 1585 This Fore Booke is Made in English by Thomas Hariot The True Pictures and Fashions of the People in that Parte of America Now Called Virginia Discowred by Englismen Sent Thither in the Years of Our Lorde 1585 Translated Out of Latin Into English by Richard Hackluit Diligentlye Collected and Draowne by Ihon White Now Cutt in Copper and First Published by T de Bry Etc Som Picture of the Pictes which in the Olde Tyme Dyd Habite One Part of the Great Bretainne the which I Wold Well Sett to the Ende of Thees First Figures for to Showe how that the Inhabitants of the Great Bretannie Have Bin in Times Past as Sauuage as Those of Virginia written by Theodor de BRY and published by . This book was released on 1590 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Early Modern Global South in Print

Download or read book The Early Modern Global South in Print written by Sandra Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern geographers and compilers of travel narratives drew on a lexicon derived from cartography’s seemingly unchanging coordinates to explain human diversity. Sandra Young’s inquiry into the partisan knowledge practices of early modernity brings to light the emergence of the early modern global south. Young proposes a new set of terms with which to understand the racialized imaginary inscribed in the scholarly texts that presented the peoples of the south as objects of an inquiring gaze from the north. Through maps, images and even textual formatting, equivalences were established between ’new’ worlds, many of them long known to European explorers, she argues, in terms that made explicit the divide between ’north’ and ’south.’ This book takes seriously the role of form in shaping meaning and its ideological consequences. Young examines, in turn, the representational methodologies, or ’artes,’ deployed in mapping the ’whole’ world: illustrating, creating charts for navigation, noting down observations, collecting and cataloguing curiosities, reporting events, formatting materials, and editing and translating old sources. By tracking these methodologies in the lines of beauty and evidence on the page, we can see how early modern producers of knowledge were able to attribute alterity to the ’southern climes’ of an increasingly complex world, while securing their own place within it.

Book The Shapes of Fancy

Download or read book The Shapes of Fancy written by Christine Varnado and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring forms of desire unaccounted for in previous histories of sexuality What can the Renaissance tell us at our present moment about who and what is “queer,” as well as the political consequences of asking? In posing this question, The Shapes of Fancy offers a powerful new method of accounting for ineffable and diffuse forms of desire, mining early modern drama and prose literature to describe new patterns of affective resonance. Starting with the question of how and why readers seek traces of desire in texts from bygone times and places, The Shapes of Fancy demonstrates a practice of critical attunement to the psychic and historical circulations of affect across time within texts, from texts to readers, and among readers. Closely reading for uncharted desires as they recur in early modern drama, witchcraft pamphlets, and early Atlantic voyage narratives and demonstrating how each is structured by qualities of secrecy, impossibility, and excess, Christine Varnado follows four “shapes of fancy”: the desire to be used to others’ ends; indiscriminate, bottomless appetite; paranoid self-fulfilling suspicion; and melancholic longings for impossible transformations and affinities. These affective dynamics go awry in atypical and perverse ways. In other words, argues Varnado, these modes of feeling are recognizable on the page or stage as “queer” because of how, and not by whom, they are expressed. This new theorization of desire expands the notion of queerness in literature, decoupling the literary trace of queerness from the binary logics of same-sex versus opposite-sex and normative versus deviant that have governed early modern sexuality studies. Providing a set of methods for analyzing affect and desire in texts from any period, The Shapes of Fancy stages an impassioned defense of the inherently desirous nature of reading, making a case for readerly investment and identification as vital engines of meaning making and political insight.

Book Bibliotheca Americana

Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by John Carter Brown and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jamestown Colony

Download or read book Jamestown Colony written by Charles E. Pederson and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines an important historic event, the Jamestown Colony. Readers will learn about the history of exploration in America leading up to the building of the Jamestown Colony, key players and happenings in the colony, and the colony's effect on society. Color photos, detailed maps, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Essential Events is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company. Grades 6-9.

Book The Art of Law in Shakespeare

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Raffield
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-02-09
  • ISBN : 1509905499
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book The Art of Law in Shakespeare written by Paul Raffield and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an examination of five plays by Shakespeare, Paul Raffield analyses the contiguous development of common law and poetic drama during the first decade of Jacobean rule. The broad premise of The Art of Law in Shakespeare is that the 'artificial reason' of law was a complex art form that shared the same rhetorical strategy as the plays of Shakespeare. Common law and Shakespearean drama of this period employed various aesthetic devices to capture the imagination and the emotional attachment of their respective audiences. Common law of the Jacobean era, as spoken in the law courts, learnt at the Inns of Court and recorded in the law reports, used imagery that would have been familiar to audiences of Shakespeare's plays. In its juridical form, English law was intrinsically dramatic, its adversarial mode of expression being founded on an agonistic model. Conversely, Shakespeare borrowed from the common law some of its most critical themes: justice, legitimacy, sovereignty, community, fairness, and (above all else) humanity. Each chapter investigates a particular aspect of the common law, seen through the lens of a specific play by Shakespeare. Topics include the unprecedented significance of rhetorical skills to the practice and learning of common law (Love's Labour's Lost); the early modern treason trial as exemplar of the theatre of law (Macbeth); the art of law as the legitimate distillation of the law of nature (The Winter's Tale); the efforts of common lawyers to create an image of nationhood from both classical and Judeo-Christian mythography (Cymbeline); and the theatrical device of the island as microcosm of the Jacobean state and the project of imperial expansion (The Tempest).

Book Narrative and Critical History of America

Download or read book Narrative and Critical History of America written by Justin Winsor and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thomas Harriot and His World

Download or read book Thomas Harriot and His World written by Robert Fox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of papers on Thomas Harriot edited by Professor Robert Fox is based on the annual Harriot lectures delivered at Oriel College, Oxford between 2000 and 2009. It complements the previous volume, published as Thomas Harriot: An Elizabethan Man of Science in 2000. The focus in several of the papers is on Harriot's outstanding achievements as a mathematician; others consider why he has never received the recognition accorded to his great contemporary, Galileo; others again examine his association with his entrepreneurial patron Walter Ralegh and his contributions to the intensely practical world of exploration and seamanship, as exemplified in his voyage to the coast of present-day North Carolina in 1585. The volume adds significantly to our understanding of a true Renaissance man who wrote accomplished Latin, earned the respect of Europe's leading mathematicians and astronomers, and moved easily in circles close to the English court and whose 'Brief and true report of the new found land of Virginia' (1588) was the first detailed description of America to be published in the English language.

Book Narrative and Critical History of America  French explorations and settlements in North America  and those of the Portuguese  Dutch  and Swedes  1500 1700

Download or read book Narrative and Critical History of America French explorations and settlements in North America and those of the Portuguese Dutch and Swedes 1500 1700 written by Justin Winsor and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Narrative and Critical History of America

Download or read book Narrative and Critical History of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Far From the Truth

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  • Author : Michiel van Groesen
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2023-12-28
  • ISBN : 1003845452
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Far From the Truth written by Michiel van Groesen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information and knowledge were essential tools of early modern Europe’s global ambitions. This volume addresses a key concern that emerged as the competition for geopolitical influence increased: how could information from afar be trusted when there was no obvious strategy for verification? How did notions of doubt develop in relation to intercultural encounters? Who were those in the position to use misinformation in their favour, and how did this affect trust? How, in other words, did distance affect credibility, and which intellectual and epistemological strategies did early modern Europe devise to cope with this problem? The movement of information, and its transformations in the process of gathering, ordering, and disseminating, makes it necessary to employ both a global and a local perspective in order to understand its significance. The rise of print, leading to various new forms of mediation, played a crucial role everywhere, inspiring theories of modernization in which media served as agents of new connections and, eventually, of globalization. Paradoxically, during the entire period between 1500 and 1800, the demise of distance through various strategies of verification coincided with constructions of otherness that emphasized the cultural and geographical difference between Europe and the worlds it encountered. Ten leading scholars of the early modern world address the relationship between distance, information, and credibility from a variety of perspectives. This volume will be an essential companion to those interested in the history of knowledge and early modern encounters, as well as specialists in the history of empire and print culture.

Book English Exploration and Settlement in North America  1497 1689

Download or read book English Exploration and Settlement in North America 1497 1689 written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Magnificent Series of Early Works Relating to America from the Renowned Library at Britwell Court  Burnham  Bucks   the Property of S  R  Christie Miller  Esq      Which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs  Sotheby  Wilkinson   Hodge     15th of August  1916  and Two Following Days

Download or read book Catalogue of the Magnificent Series of Early Works Relating to America from the Renowned Library at Britwell Court Burnham Bucks the Property of S R Christie Miller Esq Which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs Sotheby Wilkinson Hodge 15th of August 1916 and Two Following Days written by Sydney Richardson Christie-Miller and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: