Radissons's Voyages
Author : Gideon D. Scull
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Page : 410 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 1885
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Author : Gideon D. Scull
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 1885
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Author : Glenn Burger
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 2003-02-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780888643773
When civilizations first encounter each other a cascade of change is triggered that both challenges and reinforces the identities of all parties. Making Contact revisits key encounters between cultures in the medieval and early modern world. Contributors cross disciplinary boundaries to explore the implications of contact. Scott D. Westrem examines the imagined Africa depicted in the Bell Mappamundi. Day-to-day accommodations between the religious identities of Vilnius, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, are explored by David Frick. Steven F. Kruger argues that medieval Christian identity was destabilized by the living Talmudic tradition. Individual Jesuits who were critical to the success of contact in Japan are evaluated by Nakai Ayako. Linda Woodbridge argues that Elizabethan attitudes towards aboriginals paralleled their attitudes towards English vagrants. Despite a nod to Arcadian conventions, travel narratives of Virginia were preoccupied with finding wealth, according to Paul W. DePasquale’s research. Rick H. Lee examines the conflicting loyalties of Pierre Raddisson in the New World. Richard A. Young demonstrates that the Florida shipwreck narratives of Cabeza de Vaca were groomed for intended audiences, past and present. This rich interdisciplinary collaboration contributes to the debate on boundaries between disciplines, as well as boundaries between the Middle Ages and the early modern period, and also between historical and theoretical perspectives. Making Contact draws our attention to the important ways in which historic encounters with contrasting ‘others’ have shaped the identities of both individual and corporate ‘selves’ over a span of five centuries.
Author : Germaine Warkentin
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0773587616
Pierre-Esprit Radisson (1636?-1710) was many men. He was a teenager captured, tortured, and adopted by the Mohawk, and a youth relishing the freedom of the wilderness. He was the French-born servant of an ambitious English trading company and a hapless petitioner at the court of Louis XIV. He was a central figure in the tug-of-war between France and England over Hudson Bay and a pretender to aristocratic status who had to defend his actions before James II. Finally, he was a retired "sea captain" trying to provide for his children, and despite the pension he had fought for, the "decay'd Gentleman" described in his burial record. Radisson's writings, characterized by hubris and contradiction, provoke many questions. Was he a semi-literate woodsman? Are his accounts of Native life ethnographically reliable? Can he be trusted to tell the truth about himself? How important were his explorations? In this first volume of Radisson's complete writings, Germaine Warkentin introduces the life, travels, motivations, and work of this compelling and complicated figure while providing a comprehensive and authoritative edition of his masterpiece - The Voyages. In the four accounts of his travels to the far interior of the Great Lakes and James Bay, Radisson vibrantly depicts his life among the Mohawk, his encounters and relationships with Native peoples, Jesuits, English, French, and Dutch colonists and traders, as well as the hazards of the capricious politics of the New World and the thrilling surprise of discoveries. Striking a superb balance between accessible writing and comprehensive scholarship, this new edition of Radisson's Voyages is indispensable, definitive, and reasserts the important roles that Radisson played in seventeenth-century North American rivalries.
Author : Agnes C. Laut
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 10,90 MB
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
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This book presents the chronicles the exploration of Canada west of the St. Lawrence River. Most of the book is dedicated to the life, voyages, and discoveries of such personalities as Radisson, de la Verendrye, Hearne, and Mackenzie.
Author : State Historical Society of Wisconsin
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Page : 170 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Wisconsin
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Author : W. Hodding Carter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Historical reenactments
ISBN : 0743407024
In 1997, journalist and history buff W. Hodding Carter, along with a band of amateur sailers, set out to retrace Leif Eriksson's journey to North America. They sailed in a handmade ship modeled after a traditional Viking "knarr." It was the first voyage by Westerners to precisely follow the Vikings' route in nearly 1000 years. The chronicle of this voyage is told in this book, through photographs and colorful running text.
Author : Henry Eduard Legler
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Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Wisconsin
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Author : Marion Daniel Shutter
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Page : 728 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Minneapolis (Minn.)
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Page : 528 pages
File Size : 41,83 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Minnesota
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,91 MB
Release : 1896
Category : American literature
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