Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers

Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 9780226260723
ISBN-13 : 0226260720
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Book Synopsis Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers by : Wayne Franklin

Download or read book Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers written by Wayne Franklin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-10-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Send those on land that will show themselves diligent writers." So urged the "sailing instructions" prepared for explorer Henry Hudson. With distinctive command of the primary texts created by such "diligent writers" as Columbus, William Bradford, and Thomas Jefferson, Wayne Franklin describes how the New World was created from their new words. The long verbal discovery of America, he asserts, entailed both advance and retreat, sudden insights and blind insistence on old ways of seeing. The discoverers, explorers, and settlers depicted America in words—or via maps, tables, and landscape views—as a complex spatial and political entity, a place where ancient formula and current fact were inevitably at odds.


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