Old New Worlds

2019 England

Author : Judith Krummeck
Release : 2019
Genre : England
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Book Rating : 413/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Old New Worlds written by Judith Krummeck. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old New Worlds intertwines the immigrant stories of the author and her great-great grandmother. Sarah Barker and her new husband sail from England in 1815 to minister to the indigenous Khoihoi in South Africa’s Eastern Cape. In the midst of conflict, illness, and natural disasters, Sarah bears sixteen children. Two hundred years later, Judith leaves post apartheid South Africa with her new American husband to immigrate to the United States. She is drawn to Sarah’s immigrant story in the context of her own experience, and she sets out to try and trace her. In the process, she finds a soul mate.

Old World, New World

2009 History

Author : Kathleen Burk
Release : 2009
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 294/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Old World, New World written by Kathleen Burk. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the relationship between Great Britain and the United States ranges from the establishment of the first English colony in the New World to the present day, examining both nations in terms of what connected them and what drove them apart.

New Worlds, Ancient Texts

1995-03-15 History

Author : Anthony Grafton
Release : 1995-03-15
Genre : History
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Download or read book New Worlds, Ancient Texts written by Anthony Grafton. This book was released on 1995-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans so far afield. What Anthony Grafton recounts is a war of ideas fought by mariners, scientists, publishers, and rulers over a period of 150 years. In colorful vignettes, published debates, and copious illustrations, we see these men and their contemporaries trying to make sense of their discoveries as they sometimes confirm, sometimes contest, and finally displace traditional notions of the world beyond Europe.

Old Worlds, New Worlds

2009 Discoveries in geography

Author : Lisa Kaaren Bailey
Release : 2009
Genre : Discoveries in geography
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Download or read book Old Worlds, New Worlds written by Lisa Kaaren Bailey. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pre-modern European history is replete with moments of encounter. At the end of arduous sea and land journeys, and en route, Europeans met people who challenged their assumptions and certainties about the world. Some sought riches, others allies; some looked for Christian converts and some aimed for conquest. Others experienced the forced cultural encounter of exile. Many travelled only in imagination, forming ideas which have become foundational to modern mentalities: race, ethnicity, nation, and the nature of humanity. The consequences were profound: both productive and destructive. At the beginning of the third millennium CE we occupy a world shaped by those centuries of travel and encounter. This collection examines key themes and moments in European cultural expansion. Unlike many studies it spans both the medieval and early modern periods, challenging the stereotype of the post-Columbus 'age of discovery'. There is room too for examining cross-cultural relationships within Europe and regions closely linked to it, to show that curiosity, conflict and transformation could result from such meetings as they did in more far-flung realms. Several essays deal with authors, events, and ideas which will be unfamiliar to most readers but which deserve greater attention in the history of encounter and exploration.

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