America in European Consciousness, 1493-1750 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

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The five hundredth anniversary of Columbus’s first transatlantic voyage has provoked an outpouring of scholarship on how European exploration and colonization affected The united states. This book of eleven essays from leading scholars within the fields of intellectual and cultural history reverses that trend by specializing in the ways by which contact with the Americas transformed European thought.

The result of an international conference sponsored by the John Carter Brown Library, this collection addresses the affect of Spanish, French, and English experiences within the New World. The essays believe whether and how knowledge of The united states changed the mental world of European thinkers as reflected in their understanding of history, literature, linguistics, religion, and the sciences.

In assessing the process wherein Europeans sought to be aware The united states, this volume responds to issues raised by Sir John Elliott nearly a generation ago, and the collection concludes with an essay by which Elliott reflects at the scholarship of the last twenty-five years in this subject. The contributors are David Armitage, Peter Burke, Luca Codignola, J. H. Elliott, Christian Feest, Roland Greene, John M. Headley, Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Henry Lowood, Sabine MacCormack, David Quint, and Richard C. Simmons.

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