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Decentring the Renaissance : Canada and Europe in multidisciplinary perspective, 1500-1700

Title
Decentring the Renaissance : Canada and Europe in multidisciplinary perspective, 1500-1700 / edited by Germaine Warkentin, Carolyn Podruchny.
ISBN
0802043275 (cloth) :
0802081495 (pbk.) :
Published
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2001.
Physical Description
xii, 387 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Notes
Based on papers presented at a conference held at Victoria College, University of Toronto, in Mar. 1996.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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