New World Encounters: NEW WORLD ENCOUNTERS

by Stephen Greenblatt

2021-01-08 22:04:30

"Refreshing and gratifying. . . . The epics of the Pueblos' resistance, the Aztec poetry before and after the conquest, and the ritual of "toqui oncoy show the complexity of the means for survival developed throughout the Americas, from New Mexico to... Read more
"Refreshing and gratifying. . . . The epics of the Pueblos' resistance, the Aztec poetry before and after the conquest, and the ritual of "toqui oncoy show the complexity of the means for survival developed throughout the Americas, from New Mexico to the Andes."--Jaime Concha, University of California, San Diego

"Many of these essays form the cutting edge of scholarship on the expansion of Europe and its cultural consequences. Visual evidence, much of it unfamiliar, is deftly integrated into the textual analysis. . . . This work is so solid, so elegantly presented, and at the same time so innovative that the book should attract considerable attention and remain in use for a long time."--Anthony Grafton, author of "Defenders of the Text Less

Book Details

File size8.75 X 6.35 X 0.68 in
Print pages344
PublisherUniversity of California Press
Publication date March 12, 1993
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780520080218
Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of twelve books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which won the National Bo...

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