Old Worlds, New Worlds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old Worlds, New Worlds write by Lisa Kaaren Bailey. This book was released on 2009. Old Worlds, New Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pre-modern European history is replete with moments of encounter. At the end of arduous sea and land journeys, and en route, Europeans met people who challenged their assumptions and certainties about the world. Some sought riches, others allies; some looked for Christian converts and some aimed for conquest. Others experienced the forced cultural encounter of exile. Many travelled only in imagination, forming ideas which have become foundational to modern mentalities: race, ethnicity, nation, and the nature of humanity. The consequences were profound: both productive and destructive. At the beginning of the third millennium CE we occupy a world shaped by those centuries of travel and encounter. This collection examines key themes and moments in European cultural expansion. Unlike many studies it spans both the medieval and early modern periods, challenging the stereotype of the post-Columbus 'age of discovery'. There is room too for examining cross-cultural relationships within Europe and regions closely linked to it, to show that curiosity, conflict and transformation could result from such meetings as they did in more far-flung realms. Several essays deal with authors, events, and ideas which will be unfamiliar to most readers but which deserve greater attention in the history of encounter and exploration.
New Worlds, Ancient Texts
New Worlds, Ancient Texts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Worlds, Ancient Texts write by Anthony Grafton. This book was released on 1995-03-15. New Worlds, Ancient Texts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans so far afield. What Anthony Grafton recounts is a war of ideas fought by mariners, scientists, publishers, and rulers over a period of 150 years. In colorful vignettes, published debates, and copious illustrations, we see these men and their contemporaries trying to make sense of their discoveries as they sometimes confirm, sometimes contest, and finally displace traditional notions of the world beyond Europe.
Old New Worlds
Old New Worlds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old New Worlds write by Judith Krummeck. This book was released on 2019-10-15. Old New Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Old New Worlds intertwines the immigrant stories of the author and her great-great grandmother. Sarah Barker and her new husband sail from England in 1815 to minister to the indigenous Khoihoi in South Africa's Eastern Cape. In the midst of conflict, illness, and natural disasters, Sarah bears sixteen children. Two hundred years later, Judith leaves post apartheid South Africa with her new American husband to immigrate to the United States. She is drawn to Sarah's immigrant story in the context of her own experience, and she sets out to try and trace her. In the process, she finds a soul mate.
New Worlds for Old
New Worlds for Old - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Worlds for Old write by William Brandon. This book was released on 1986. New Worlds for Old available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds
Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds write by Children's Book Council of Australia NSW Branch. This book was released on 2021-05-28. Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A rich anthology of stories, plays, poetry and illustrations from members of CBCA NSW Branch to engage children in the 2021 theme for CBCA Book Week and beyond. Created by over 70 contributors, including some of the most well loved Australian children's literature creatives as well as many up-and-coming. The Foreward is from the NSW Governor, the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC and Mir Wilson, introduction from Ursula Dubosarsky the Australian Children's Laureate and acknowledgement of Country in Dharug by Jasmine Seymour. All the work has been donated by the creatives and developed by the dedicated committee of the CBCA NSW Branch Eastern Suburbs Sub-branch.Funds raised by the sales of this anthology will further the work of Bothe the CBCA NSW Branch and their Eastern Suburbs Sub-branch in fulfilling their shared purpose: to ensure Australian children have stories written for them, to support and celebrate the work of our Australian creatives, and to promote the joy of reading.
