Giuseppe Marcocci (Associat Associate Professor in Iberian History

The Globe on Paper

Writing Histories of the World in Renaissance Europe and the Americas

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Produktbeschreibung

How did writing histories of the world change after the discovery of America? Focusing on a set of case studies, this book explores creative works by Renaissance authors who made use of new sources and materials to produce narratives about the globe, working across different cultures and languages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 158mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9780198849681
• ISBN-10: 0198849680
• Artikelnr.: 59827257

Autorenporträt

Giuseppe Marcocci is Associate Professor in Iberian History (European and Extra-European, 1450-1800) at the University of Oxford and an Official Fellow and Tutor in History at Exeter College. His research interests lie at the intersection of the political and cultural history of the early modern world, with a special focus on Spain, Portugal, and their global empires.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Illustrations
* Introduction: Renaissance Historians and the World
* 1: Genealogical Histories: Forging Antiquities from New Spain to
China
* 2: Histories in Motion: Thinking Back to the Moluccas in a Lisbon
Hospital
* 3: Indigenous Comparisons: A Renaissance Bestseller in the Colonial
Andes
* 4: Popular Accounts: Printing Histories of the World in Late
Renaissance Venice
* 5: Jesuit Missions and Imperial Rivalries: The Twilight of Histories
of the World
* Conclusions