America in European consciousness, 1493-1750 /
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Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va. by the University of North Carolina Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the changing definition of America / Karen Ordahl Kupperman
- pt. 1. America and the historical imagination: America and the rewriting of world history / Peter Burke
- The new world and British historical thought: from Richard Hakluyt to William Robertson / David Armitage
- pt. 2. America reflected in Europe: Limits of understanding: perceptions of Greco-Roman and Amerindian paganism in early modern Europe / Sabine MacCormack
- Petrarchism among the discourses of imperialism / Roland Greene
- A reconsideration of Montaigne's Des cannibales / David Quint
- pt. 3. America and European aspirations: The Holy See and the conversion of the Indians in French and British North America, 1486-1760 / Luca Codignola
- Campanella, America, and world Evangelization / John M. Headley
- The beehive as a model for colonial design / Karen Ordahl Kupperman
- pt. 4. America and the scholarly impulse: The new world and the European catalog of nature / Henry Lowood
- The collecting of American Indian artifacts in Europe, 1493-1750 / Christian F. Feest
- Americana in British books, 1621-1760 / Richard C. Simmons
- pt. 5. Conclusion: Final reflections: the old world and the new revisited / J.H. Elliott.
