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The German Discovery of the World: Renaissance Encounters with the Strange and Marvelous (Studies in Early Modern German History)
Christine R. Johnson
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Paperback. Containing chapters that deal with travel narratives, cosmography, commerce, and medical botany, this book examines how ideas and methods are deployed to make German commentators experts in the overseas world, and how this incorporation established the discoveries as important intellectual, commercial, and scientific developments. Series: Studies in Early Modern German History. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
Current historiography suggests that European nations regarded the New World as an inassimilable 'other' that posed fundamental challenges to the accepted ideas of Renaissance culture. ""The German Discovery of the World"" presents a new interpretation that emphasizes the ways in which the new lands and peoples in Africa, Asia, and the Americas were imagined as comprehensible and familiar. In chapters dedicated to travel narratives, cosmography, commerce, and medical botany, Johnson examines how existing ideas and methods were deployed to make German commentators experts in the overseas world, and how this incorporation established the discoveries as new and important intellectual, commercial, ... Read more
Current historiography suggests that European nations regarded the New World as an inassimilable 'other' that posed fundamental challenges to the accepted ideas of Renaissance culture. ""The German Discovery of the World"" presents a new interpretation that emphasizes the ways in which the new lands and peoples in Africa, Asia, and the Americas were imagined as comprehensible and familiar. In chapters dedicated to travel narratives, cosmography, commerce, and medical botany, Johnson examines how existing ideas and methods were deployed to make German commentators experts in the overseas world, and how this incorporation established the discoveries as new and important intellectual, commercial, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Early Modern German History
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813927343
SKU
V9780813927343
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About Christine R. Johnson
Christine R. Johnson is Associate Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis.
Reviews for The German Discovery of the World: Renaissance Encounters with the Strange and Marvelous (Studies in Early Modern German History)
Johnson's prose is lucid, lively, graceful, sometimes witty, and always accessible. Her work is full of fascinating material that most scholars, to say nothing of students, will not know, and swarms with superb and often unexpected illustrative examples and amazing stories. A superb addition to the literature available in English. - Anthony Grafton, Princeton University