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Americas lost, 1492-1713 : the first encounter / edited by Daniel Lévine ; foreword by Claude Lévi-Strauss ; Ricardo Avila Palafox [and others] ; Maryse Delaplanche, photographer ; translated by John Fergusson and Michael Barry.
Record details
- ISBN: 2040144994
- ISBN: 9782040144999
- Physical Description: 192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
- Publisher: [Paris] : Bordas ; ©1992.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Cover and spine title: Americas lost.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 189) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Foreword / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- 'As Indian Moors obey their Spanish lords' / Michael Barry -- The first encounters with the Americans / Daniel Lévine -- The Aztecs / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma -- The Incas / Jean-François Bouchard -- Chronicle of an encounter in the land of Canada / Anne Vitart -- American curiosities / Anne Vitart -- The conversion of the Indians, from Santo Domingo to Mexico / Christian Duverger -- Indian North America, in the turmoil of colonization / Philippe Jacquin -- Colonial America : a land of synthesis / Georges Baudot -- America : continent of miscengenation / Ricardo Avila Palafox -- From the encounter to Utopia / Miguel León-Portilla -- Chronology -- America and the English renaissance : Shakespeare's 'Tempest' (1611) / Michael Barry.
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- America > Discovery and exploration.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lummi Library | E 121 .A4713 1992 | 02232221 | Oversize | Available | - |
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The discovery of North America; a critical, documentary, and historic investigation. With an essay on the early cartography of the New World, including descriptions of two hundred and fifty maps or globes existing or lost, constructed before the year 1536; to which are added a chronology of one hundred voyages westward, projected, attempted, or accomplished between 1431 and 1504; biographical accounts of the three hundred pilots who first crossed the Atlantic; and a copious list of the original names of American regions, caciqueships, mountains, islands, capes, gulfs, rivers, towns, and harbours.
Harrisse, Henry, 1829-1910.