Peter C Mancall

Broschiertes Buch

Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic

Beschreibung

Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic reveals how Europeans and Native Americans devised ways to understand the environment. Drawing on paintings, oral history, early printed books, and other cultural artifacts, Peter C. Mancall argues that human understanding of nature played a central role in the emergence of the modern world.

Autor

Peter C. Mancall is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, the Linda and Harlan Martens Director of the Early Modern Studies Institute, and Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Southern California. He is author of numerous books, including Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson--A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic and Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 178mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780812224726
• ISBN-10: 0812224728
• Artikelnr.: 59961560