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Fernández de Oviedo's chronicle of America : a new history for a New World
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SCRUTINIZING THE BIOGRAPHIES OF THE FRENCH ADVENTURERS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY INDIA
The travellers who visited India in the eighteenth century looked hardly like tourists and were less romantic in the Colonial period and the majority left their homeland to seek a fortune that they believed easier to acquire in the Orient. Most of the Frenchmen had the conviction of the superiority of their own nation. They contributed or supported the project of the French commercial and political expansion in India. Although in the eighteenth century many Frenchmen such as Claude Martin and Antoine-Louis-Henry Polier worked also to serve the English but the majority of voyagers had patriotic affiliations towards their native country and the French East India Company.
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The last Englishmen : love, war, and the end of empire
\"John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya. Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers--W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender--achieved literary fame, they vied to be included on an expedition that would deliver Everest's summit to an Englishman, a quest that had become a metaphor for Britain's struggle to maintain power over India. To this rivalry was added another: in the summer of 1938 both men fell in love with a painter named Nancy Sharp. Her choice would determine where each man's wartime loyalties would lie. Set in Calcutta, London, the glacier-locked wilds of the Karakoram, and on Everest itself, The Last Englishmen is also the story of a generation. The cast of this exhilarating drama includes Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and communist spies, Die Hards and Indian nationalists, political rogues and police informers. Key among them is a highborn Bengali poet named Sudhin Datta, a melancholy soul torn, like many of his generation, between hatred of the British Empire and a deep love of European literature, whose life would be upended by the arrival of war on his Calcutta doorstep\"-- Publisher's description.
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Fernández de Oviedo's Chronicle of America
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) wrote the first comprehensive history of Spanish America, theHistoria general y natural de las Indias, a sprawling, constantly revised work in which Oviedo attempted nothing less than a complete account of the Spanish discovery, conquest, and colonization of the Americas from 1492 to 1547, along with descriptions of the land's flora, fauna, and indigenous peoples. HisHistoria, which grew to an astounding fifty volumes, includes numerous interviews with the Spanish and indigenous leaders who were literally making history, the first extensive field drawings of America rendered by a European, reports of exotic creatures, ethnographic descriptions of indigenous groups, and detailed reports about the conquest and colonization process.
Fernández de Oviedo's Chronicle of Americaexplores how, in writing hisHistoria, Oviedo created a new historiographical model that reflected the vastness of the Americas and Spain's enterprise there. Kathleen Myers uses a series of case studies-focusing on Oviedo's self-portraits, drawings of American phenomena, approaches to myth, process of revision, and depictions of Native Americans-to analyze Oviedo's narrative and rhetorical strategies and show how they relate to the politics, history, and discursive practices of his time. Accompanying the case studies are all of Oviedo's extant field drawings and a wide selection of his text in English translation.
The first study to examine the entireHistoriaand its evolving rhetorical and historical context, this book confirms Oviedo's assertion that \"the New World required a different kind of history\" as it helps modern readers understand how the discovery of the Americas became a catalyst for European historiographical change.
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Vasco da Gama : discovering the sea route to India
\"Examines the life of explorer Vasco da Gama, including his childhood in Portugal, his three expeditions to India, opening up the spice trade and expanding Portugal's empire, and his legacy in world history\"--Provided by publisher.
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Vasco de Gama et l'ouverture de la route des Indes
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Vasco de Gama et l'ouverture de la route des Indes en moins d'une heure! En 1497, cinq ans seulement après la découverte de l'Amérique par Christophe Colomb, Vasco de Gama s'embarque pour l'Inde. S'il part en quête d'épices et des mille autres richesses que recèlent ces lointaines contrées, il s'agit aussi, et surtout, de fonder en Asie un comptoir portugais, afin de jeter les bases d'un empire colonial. Nul doute que l'expédition s'avérera décisive pour la couronne portugaise. Ce livre vous permettra d'en savoir plus sur: • La vie du navigateur • Le contexte politique et social de l'époque • Ses expéditions (carte à l'appui) • Les répercussions de ses voyages Le mot de l'éditeur: « Dans ce numéro de la collection « 50MINUTES | Grandes Découvertes », Thomas Melchers nous présente la vie et les expéditions de l'un des plus célèbres explorateurs du XVe siècle. Désireux de mener à bien les missions qui lui sont confiées, Vasco de Gama n'hésite pas à avoir recours à la force, ce qui le fera tomber en disgrâce. Aussi fascinant que redoutable, Vasco de Gama ne cesse d'occuper l'imaginaire collectif. » Stéphanie Dagrain À PROPOS DE LA SÉRIE 50MINUTES | Grandes Découvertes La série « Grandes Découvertes » de la collection « 50MINUTES » aborde plus de cinquante explorations territoriales qui ont bouleversé notre connaissance du monde. Chaque livre a été pensé pour les lecteurs curieux qui veulent faire le tour d'un sujet précis en allant à l'essentiel, et ce en moins d'une heure. Nos auteurs mêlent les faits historiques et les analyses aux nouvelles recherches pour rendre accessibles des siècles d'histoire.
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