Making Contact : Maps, Identity, and Travel Paperback / softback
Edited by Glenn Burger, Lesley B. Cormack, Jonathan Hart, Natalia Pylypiuk
Paperback / softback
Description
When civilizations first encounter each other a cascade of change is triggered that both challenges and reinforces the identities of all parties.
Making Contact revisits key encounters between cultures in the medieval and early modern world-Europe and Africa, the multiple ethnicities of greater Poland, Christians and Jews, Jesuits and Japanese, Elizabethans vs. aboriginals and vagrants, English and Algonquians, Pierre Radisson and the Iroquois, and the Spaniards in America.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:University of Alberta Press
- Publication Date:01/02/2003
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- ISBN:9780888643773
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:University of Alberta Press
- Publication Date:01/02/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780888643773