Research Catalog

Title

Decentring the Renaissance : Canada and Europe in multidisciplinary perspective, 1500-1700 / edited by Germaine Warkentin, Carolyn Podruchny.

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Warkentin, Germaine.
• Podruchny, Carolyn.

Description

xii, 387 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Canada > Discovery and exploration > Congresses
• Canada > Civilization > European influences > Congresses
• Canada > Civilization > 17th century > Congresses
• Canada > Civilization > To 1763 > Congresses
• Renaissance > Congresses
• Europe > Civilization > Canadian influences > Congresses
• Indians of North America > First contact with Europeans > Canada > Congresses
• America > Discovery and exploration > Congresses

Note

• Based on papers presented at a conference held at Victoria College, University of Toronto, in Mar. 1996.

Bibliography (note)

• 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 Sanfacon -- 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.

Call Number

JFE 02-4757

ISBN

• 0802043275 (cloth)
• 0802081495 (pbk.)

OCLC

46769697

Title

Decentring the Renaissance : Canada and Europe in multidisciplinary perspective, 1500-1700 / edited by Germaine Warkentin, Carolyn Podruchny.

Imprint

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2001.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Warkentin, Germaine.

Podruchny, Carolyn.

Research Call Number

JFE 02-4757