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Author : Dennis Reinhartz
Release : 1998
Genre : America
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Book Synopsis The Americas Revealed in the Theatrum by : Dennis Reinhartz
Download or read book The Americas Revealed in the Theatrum written by Dennis Reinhartz. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : María M. Portuondo
Release : 2019-03-13
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis The Spanish Disquiet by : María M. Portuondo
Download or read book The Spanish Disquiet written by María M. Portuondo. This book was released on 2019-03-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, historian María M. Portuondo takes us to sixteenth-century Spain, where she identifies a community of natural philosophers and biblical scholars. They shared what she calls the “Spanish Disquiet”—a preoccupation with the perceived shortcomings of prevailing natural philosophies and empirical approaches when it came to explaining the natural world. Foremost among them was Benito Arias Montano—Spain’s most prominent biblical scholar and exegete of the sixteenth century. He was also a widely read member of the European intellectual community, and his motivation to reform natural philosophy shows that the Spanish Disquiet was a local manifestation of greater concerns about Aristotelian natural philosophy that were overtaking Europe on the eve of the Scientific Revolution. His approach to the study of nature framed the natural world as unfolding from a series of events described in the Book of Genesis, ultimately resulting in a new metaphysics, cosmology, physics, and even a natural history of the world. By bringing Arias Montano’s intellectual and personal biography into conversation with broader themes that inform histories of science of the era, The Spanish Disquiet ensures an appreciation of the variety and richness of Arias Montano’s thought and his influence on early modern science.
Author : Katherine A. Faust
Release : 2015-04-09
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Huasteca by : Katherine A. Faust
Download or read book The Huasteca written by Katherine A. Faust. This book was released on 2015-04-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Huasteca, a region on the northern Gulf Coast of Mexico, was for centuries a pre-Columbian crossroads for peoples, cultures, arts, and trade. Its multiethnic inhabitants influenced, and were influenced by, surrounding regions, ferrying unique artistic styles, languages, and other cultural elements to neighboring areas and beyond. In The Huasteca: Culture, History, and Interregional Exchange, a range of authorities on art, history, archaeology, and cultural anthropology bring long-overdue attention to the region’s rich contributions to the pre-Columbian world. They also assess how the Huasteca fared from colonial times to the present. The authors call critical, even urgent attention to a region highly significant to Mesoamerican history but long neglected by scholars. Editors Katherine A. Faust and Kim N. Richter put the plight and the importance of the Huasteca into historical and cultural context. They address challenges to study of the region, ranging from confusion about the term “Huasteca” (a legacy of the Aztec conquest in the late fifteenth century) to present-day misconceptions about the region’s role in pre-Columbian history. Many of the contributions included here consider the Huasteca’s interactions with other regions, particularly the American Southeast and the southern Gulf Coast of Mexico. Pre-Columbian Huastec inhabitants, for example, wore trapezoid-shaped shell ornaments unique in Mesoamerica but similar to those found along the Mississippi River. With extensive examples drawn from archaeological evidence, and supported by nearly 200 images, the contributors explore the Huasteca as a junction where art, material culture, customs, ritual practices, and languages were exchanged. While most of the essays focus on pre-Columbian periods, a few address the early colonial period and contemporary agricultural and religious practices. Together, these essays illuminate the Huasteca’s significant legacy and the cross-cultural connections that still resonate in the region today.
Author : M. P. R. van den Broecke
Release : 1998
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Abraham Ortelius and the First Atlas by : M. P. R. van den Broecke
Download or read book Abraham Ortelius and the First Atlas written by M. P. R. van den Broecke. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an introduction by Leon Voet, and with 20 contributions by Günter Schilder, Rodney Shirley, Dennis Reinhartz, H.A.M. van der Heijden, Marijke Spies and others.
Author : Samuel Bawlf
Release : 2001
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Sir Francis Drake's Secret Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, AD 1579 by : Samuel Bawlf
Download or read book Sir Francis Drake's Secret Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, AD 1579 written by Samuel Bawlf. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
