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Julian's Adventures begin and the translator of Jon Cohen's Almost
Shimpanzee leads us into a plot of High Danger. ---------------
Interesting guide to drawing Palaeontology All rights reserved The
Ruby Necklace
Two inseparable in War against Terror. What life can bring apart
the love will seal!
Innocence Abroad explores the process of encounter that took place between the Netherlands and the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The "discovery" of America coincided with the foundation of the Dutch Republic, a correspondence of much significance for the Netherlands. From the opening of their Revolt against Hapsburg Spain through the climax of their Golden Age, the Dutch looked to America--in political pamphlets and patriotic histories, epic poetry and allegorical prints, landscape painting and decorative maps--for a means of articulating a new national identity. This book demonstrates how the image of America fashioned by the Dutch, and especially the twin topoi of "innocence" and "tyranny," became integrally associated with evolving political, moral and economic agenda. It investigates the energetic Dutch response to the New World while examining, more generally, the operation of geographic discourse and colonial ideology within the Dutch Golden Age.
Innocence Abroad explores the process of encounter that took place
between the Netherlands and the New World in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. The 'discovery' of America coincided with
the foundation of the Dutch Republic, a correspondence of much
significance for the Netherlands. From the opening of their Revolt
against Hapsburg Spain through the climax of their Golden Age, the
Dutch looked to America - in political pamphlets and patriotic
histories, epic poetry and allegorical prints, landscape painting
and decorative maps - for a means of articulating a new national
identity. This book demonstrates how the image of America fashioned
in the Netherlands, and especially the twin themes of 'innocence'
and 'tyranny', became integrally associated with the evolving
political, moral and economic agenda. It investigates the energetic
Dutch response to the New World while examining the operation of
geographic discourse and colonial ideology within the culture of
the Dutch Golden Age.
As early modern Europe launched its multiple projects of global
empire, it simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of
describing and picturing the world. The shapes and meanings of the
extraordinary global images that emerged from this process form the
subject of this highly original and richly textured study of
cultural geography. Inventing Exoticism draws on a vast range of
sources from history, literature, science, and art to describe the
energetic and sustained international engagements that gave birth
to our modern conceptions of exoticism and globalism. Illustrated
with more than two hundred images of engravings, paintings,
ceramics, and more, Inventing Exoticism shows, in vivid example and
persuasive detail, how Europeans came to see and understand the
world at an especially critical juncture of imperial imagination.
At the turn to the eighteenth century, European markets were
flooded by books and artifacts that described or otherwise evoked
non-European realms: histories and ethnographies of overseas
kingdoms, travel narratives and decorative maps, lavishly produced
tomes illustrating foreign flora and fauna, and numerous decorative
objects in the styles of distant cultures. Inventing Exoticism
meticulously analyzes these, while further identifying the
particular role of the Dutch-"Carryers of the World," as Defoe
famously called them-in the business of exotica. The form of early
modern exoticism that sold so well, as this book shows, originated
not with expansion-minded imperialists of London and Paris, but in
the canny ateliers of Holland. By scrutinizing these materials from
the perspectives of both producers and consumers-and paying close
attention to processes of cultural mediation-Inventing Exoticism
interrogates traditional postcolonial theories of knowledge and
power. It proposes a wholly revisionist understanding of geography
in a pivotal age of expansion and offers a crucial historical
perspective on our own global culture as it engages in a
media-saturated world.
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Goliath (Paperback)
Benjamin Schmidt
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R1,396
Discovery Miles 13 960
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Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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Goliath - The story of Archaeology, Palaeontology and the purchase
of a property in France..
Petit Ruri is aprognostic book about current Europian Psychiatry of
21 Century. After Jon Cohen stilistics like Californica, Le
Societe. Lui et compra
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